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Academic Alignment Authority: District of Columbia
Subject Matter / Course: Social Studies
The following academic standards have been aligned to 12 Years a Slave
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Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
Ages: 17
Explain how the city responded to the problems that accompanied the sudden surge of population (e.g., soldiers and escaping slaves).
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
Ages: 13
Identify the conditions of enslavement, and explain how slaves adapted and resisted in their daily lives.
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
Ages: 13
Trace the development of slavery; its effects on black Americans and on the region’s political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development; and the strategies that were tried to both overturn and preserve it (e.g., through the writings of David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass, as well as the historical documents on Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey).
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
Ages: 10
Describe the lives of African Americans, including an explanation of their early concentration in the South because of slavery, the Great Migration to Northern cities in the 20th century, and ongoing African immigrant groups (e.g., Ethiopians, Nigerians, and Ghanaians), and where they have tended to settle in large numbers.
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
Ages: 10
Identify the characteristics of slave life and the resistance on plantations and farms across the South.
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
Ages: 10
Describe how Southern colonists slowly altered their attitudes toward Africans, increasingly viewing them as permanent servants or slaves; the harsh conditions of the Middle Passage; the responses of slave families to their condition; and the ongoing struggle between proponents and opponents of slavery.
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
Ages: 10
Explain the expansion of the plantation system and slavery as the demand for cotton production grew.
