The following standards have been taken from the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McRel) standards.

Students will:

• Understand different economic, cultural, and social characteristics of slavery after 1800 (e.g., the influence of the Haitian Revolution and the ending of the Atlantic slave trade, how slaves forged their own culture in the face of oppression, the role of the plantation system in shaping slaveholders and the enslaved, the experiences of escaped slaves).


• Understand how slavery influenced economic and social elements of southern society (e.g., how slavery hindered the emergence of capitalist institutions and values, the influence of slavery on the development of the middle class, the influence of slave revolts on the lives of slaves and freed slaves).


• Know how to perceive past events with historical empathy.


• Gather and use information for research purposes


• Use:
• Reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts.
• The general skills and practices of the writing process.
• The stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing.
• Viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media.