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Migration, Labor, and the Division Over Slavery

3rd Grade · Social Studies · US-MA-SS

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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.T4.4Massachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Explain that many different groups of people immigrated to the United States from other places voluntarily and some were brought to the United States against their will (as in the case of people of Africa).