How did people's views on slavery change after independence?

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How did people's views on slavery change after
independence?

• Lesson by Karen Mireles
• Adapted from the Scott Foresman 5th Grade
  Curriculum
• Our
  Nation
• Standard H-SS 5.6.7 Understand how the ideals
  set forth in the
• Declaration of Independence changed the way
  people viewed slavery.

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Background information

• After the Revolutionary War states started
  writing their own constitutions. A constitution
  is a written plan of government. Citizens played
  an important role in writing the
  constitutionEven though Massachusetts tried to
  pass a new constitution in 1778 the citizens
  were not happy with the first draft and did not
  ratify the constitution until it was rewritten
  and then became the first state whose citizens
  ratified their constitution in 1780. Some ideals
  of the US constitution was modeled after the
  state constitutions (Scott Foresmann, p. 142-143).

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People Contribute to different views
on slavery

• Harriet Tubman
• Prior to lesson, the book Who was Harriet
  Tubman?By Yona Zeldis McDonough will be a
  read-a-loud by the teacher.
• Frederick Douglass
• Mentioned in Harriet Tubmans book.
• Quakers
• Also explained in Harriet Tubmans book.
• Abolitionists
• Again explained in Harriet Tubmans book.

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D Documents contribute to the
views changing about slavery

• Constitution of Vermont
• Pensylvania General Assembly
• Declaration of Independance

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Important Vocabulary

• Slavery people owned by others
• Abolish to end
• Abolitionists people who wanted to end slavery
  immediately
• Constitution A written plan of government
• Ratify to agree to and accept as final

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