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Migration, Labor, and the Division Over Slavery

3rd Grade · Social Studies · US-MA-SS

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Goal

Examine voluntary and forced migrations to the United States and analyze how conflicts over slavery's western expansion led to the Civil War.

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  5. Voices for Freedom: The Abolitionist Movement and Underground RailroadNot started yet
  6. The Outbreak of the Civil War: 1861 to 1865Not started yet
  7. The Emancipation Proclamation and the Preservation of the UnionNot started yet
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us-ma4.T4.5Massachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Show understanding that in the middle of the 19th century, the people of the United States were deeply divided over the question of slavery and its expansion into newly settled parts of the West, which led to the Civil War from 1861 to 1865.