How Early Governments Affected Different Groups: Citizens, Women, and Enslaved Peoples

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Analyze how early American laws granted power to property-owning men while denying basic rights to women, Indigenous peoples, and enslaved Africans.

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From Slavery to Suffrage: Expanding Rights in Early America

4th Grade · Social-studies · US-WI-SS

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Analyze how early American laws restricted freedom and examine how movements for abolition, Reconstruction, and women's suffrage expanded democratic rights and the vote.

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SS.PS2.c.4-5Wisconsin Social Studies Standards · 4th Grade

Critique instances where groups have been denied access to power and rights, and any law or customs that have altered these instances. Summarize how people (e.g., religious groups, civil rights groups, workers, neighborhood residents) organize to gain a greater voice to impact and change their communities.