SS.912.AA.2.10

Evaluate the Abolitionist Movement and its leaders and how they contributed in different ways to eliminate slavery.

Clarifications

Clarification 1: Instruction includes different abolitionist leaders and how their approaches to abolition differed (e.g., William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, President Abraham Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens, Sojourner Truth, Jonathan Walker, Albion Tourgée, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wilberforce [United Kingdom], Vicente Guerrero [Mexico]).

Clarification 2: Instruction includes how Abraham Lincoln’s views on abolition evolved over time.

Clarification 3: Instruction includes the relationship between William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass and their respective approaches to abolition.

Clarification 4: Instruction includes the efforts in the creation of the 13th Amendment.

Clarification 5: Instruction includes different abolition groups and how they related to other causes (e.g., women’s suffrage, temperance movements).

Clarification 6: Instruction includes the efforts of the American Colonization Society towards the founding of Liberia and its relationship to the struggle to end slavery in the United States.

General Information
Subject Area: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Strand: African American History
Status: State Board Approved

Related Courses

This benchmark is part of these courses.
2100340: African-American History (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
2100336: African-American History Honors (Specifically in versions: 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
2100345: Great Men and Women of Color Who Shaped World History (Specifically in versions: 2017 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))

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