Locate Academic Alignments For - Platt’s Journey to Slavery in Louisiana
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Academic Alignment Authority: Virginia
Subject Matter / Course: Social Studies
The following academic standards have been aligned to Platt’s Journey to Slavery in Louisiana
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Social Studies
Platt’s Journey to Slavery in Louisiana
Ages: 10, 11
Southern states that were dependent upon labor-intensive cash crops seceded from the Union. Northernmost slave states (border states) and free states stayed in the Union.
Social Studies
Platt’s Journey to Slavery in Louisiana
Ages: 10, 11
Plantations (slavery), mansions, indentured servants, fewer cities, fewer schools, Church of England
Social Studies
Platt’s Journey to Slavery in Louisiana
Ages: 11, 12
African Americans also faced discrimination and violence in the North and Midwest.
Social Studies
Platt’s Journey to Slavery in Louisiana
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
Slavery was based on race.
Social Studies
Platt’s Journey to Slavery in Louisiana
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
Women and children entering the workplace as cheap labor
Social Studies
Platt’s Journey to Slavery in Louisiana
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
The African slave trade and the development of a slave-labor system in many of the colonies resulted from plantation economies and labor shortages.
Social Studies
Platt’s Journey to Slavery in Louisiana
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
The development of a slavery-based agricultural economy in the Southern colonies eventually led to conflict between the North and South and the American Civil War.
Social Studies
Platt’s Journey to Slavery in Louisiana
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
Slave revolts in Virginia, led by Nat Turner and Gabriel Prosser, fed white Southerners’ fears about slave rebellions and led to harsh laws in the South against fugitive slaves. Southerners who favored abolition were intimidated into silence.
Social Studies
Platt’s Journey to Slavery in Louisiana
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
Fugitive slave events pitted Southern slave owners against outraged Northerners who opposed returning escaped slaves to bondage.
Social Studies
Platt’s Journey to Slavery in Louisiana
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
Although slavery ended, African- Americans did not achieve full equality during the next 100 years.
Social Studies
Platt’s Journey to Slavery in Louisiana
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
African Americans disagreed about how to respond to these developments.
