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Abolitionist Strategies, Politics, and the Sectional Crisis

7th Grade · Social Studies · US-MS-SS

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Goal

Analyze the media campaigns, political movements, and escalating resistance strategies that propelled abolition into national politics and accelerated the road to the Civil War.

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us-ms7C.10.1Mississippi Social Studies Standards · 7th Grade

Examine abolitionists’ role in bringing attention to the impact of slavery on the nation (e.g., Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, etc.).