This fifth grade curricular unit explores the history of enslavement in the United States and three social justice movements: the antebellum abolition movement, the Wampanoag’s struggle for sovereignty, and the women’s suffrage movement. This unit prepares students for later investigations into the civil rights movement and the other movements for social justice that it inspired.
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