Standard 4-5: The student will demonstrate an understanding of westward expansion of the United States and its impact on the institution of slavery.
4-5.5 Explain how the Missouri Compromise, the fugitive slave laws, the annexation of Texas, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott decision affected the institution of slavery in the United States and its territories.
Standard 4-6: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the causes, the course, and the effects of the American Civil War.
4-6.1 Explain the significant economic and geographic differences between the North and South.
4-6.2 Explain the contributions of abolitionists to the mounting tensions between the North and South over slavery, including William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown.
4-6.3 Explain the specific events and issues that led to the Civil War, including sectionalism, slavery in the territories, states’ rights, the presidential election of 1860, and secession.