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Expansion, Civil War, and Reconstruction

Virginia SOL VUS.8

Analyze the development and abolition of slavery in the United States.

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What students need to be able to do

  • Explain how slavery is the antithesis of freedom.
  • Describe the impacts of abolitionists including Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  • Analyze key policies and actions including the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott v. Sandford, and the Emancipation Proclamation.
  • Explain the extension of rights provided in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.