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Who Were Some of the People Who Worked to End Slavery? InteractiveWho Were Some of the People Who Worked to End Slavery? Interactive
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DocsTeach
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Grade
4th - 7th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Resource Type
Interactives
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Duration
30 mins
Instructional Strategy
Independent Practice
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Interactive

Who Were Some of the People Who Worked to End Slavery?

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This Who Were Some of the People Who Worked to End Slavery? interactive also includes:
  • Key Figures Who Worked to End Slavery
  • Abolitionist John Brown
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Garrison, William Lloyd; three-quarter-length, seated
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Joint Resolution Proposing the Thirteenth Amendment
  • Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln
  • Activity
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As pupils match information to photographs, a document is revealed—the Joint Resolution Proposing the Thirteenth Amendment. Scholars read about some of the people who worked to end slavery, then list each person and at least one way that person worked to abolish slavery.

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Concepts

abolitionists, the abolitionist movement, slavery, the thirteenth amendment, harriet tubman, harriet beecher stowe, frederick douglass, john brown, abraham lincoln

Instructional Ideas

  • Plan the interactive for February, during Black History Month
  • Assign the interactive as an independent practice or discuss it as a class

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires devices with internet access; projection is completing the interactive as a class
  • The final challenge asks class members to submit a response in an email box

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  • Each square's photograph or information can be enlarged
  • The activity can be completed on mobile devices

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