Graphic Organizer: Primary Sources in Lesson 2, Plainest Demands of Justice
How did the principles of the Declaration of Independence contribute to the quest to end slavery from colonial times to the outbreak of the Civil War?
- I can interpret primary sources related to Founding principles of liberty, equality, and justice from the colonial era to the outbreak of the Civil War.
- I can explain how laws and policy, courts, and individuals and groups contributed to or pushed back against the quest to end slavery.
- I can create an argument using evidence from primary sources.
- I can analyze issues in history to help find solutions to present-day challenges.
Directions: Identify the main ideas and connections to the Founding principles using the information you gathered from your assigned documents.
Document Title and Date | Main ideas | Connection to or Violation of Founding Principles |
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*Enactment of Hereditary Slavery Law, Virginia, 1662 | ||
Germantown Friends Protest Against Slavery, 1688 | ||
An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing Negroes and Other Slaves, South Carolina, 1740 | ||
John Woolman, “Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes,” 1754 | ||
Thomas Paine, “African Slavery in America,” 1775 | ||
Belinda Sutton, Petition to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1783 | ||
Correspondence between Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson, August, 1791 | ||
Ohio State Constitution, 1803 and Black Code, 1804 | ||
U.S. Congress: An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves, 1807 | ||
James Forten, from “Letter I: Letters from a Man of Color, on a Late Bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania,” 1813 | ||
U.S. Congress: An Act to Authorize the People of the Missouri Territory to Form a Constitution and State Government (Missouri Compromise), 1820 | ||
David Walker, Appeal, in Four Articles, 1829 | ||
The Underground Railroad and Networks to Freedom | ||
Maria Stewart Advocates Education for African American Women, 1832 | ||
William Lloyd Garrison, American Anti-Slavery Society Declaration of Sentiments, 1833 | ||
John C. Calhoun, Speech on Abolition Petitions, 1837 | ||
U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. v. Amistad 40 US 518, 1841 | ||
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845 | ||
Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?” 1851 | ||
Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, 1853 | ||
George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South, or, The Failure of Free Society, 1854 | ||
U.S. Congress, An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas (Kansas-Nebraska Act), 1854 | ||
Abraham Lincoln, Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, 1854 | ||
U.S. Supreme Court, Dred Scott v. Sandford 60 US 393, 1856 | ||
John Brown’s Last Speech, 1859 | ||
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1860 | ||
Chart: Slave population in 1860 |