2. Objective:
• SWBAT
summarize the
debate between
the founders
regarding slavery *
by analyzing an
article written
about the promises
made by the
American
Revolution
3. Homework:
• What would you
have said to
Washington about
slavery? Imagine
you were a
founder. How
would you discuss
it with this man?
5. Vocabulary:
• Abolitionist:
someone who
works to end
slavery
• Being an
Abolitionist does
NOT mean the
person believes in
equality for African
Americans!
6. Review of Last year
• Q: What was the
crises in the British
Empire?
7. Review of Last year
• Q: What was the
crises in the British
Empire?
• A: The conflict
between the
Colonists and the
British over who
was going to rule
the colonies
8. Natural Rights
• Rights no one can
take away
• For example – you
have the right of
free speech but not
because the
government lets
you have it
9. Natural Rights
• The founders
believed in natural
rights
• These ideas came
from a thing called
the Enlightenment
• The Enlightenment
was all about reason
and being rational
10. The Declaration
of Independence:
• Why did Jefferson,
a slaveholder, put
a passage in the
Declaration of
Independence
condemning
slavery, and why
did he then take it
out?
11. Why puta resolution condemning slavery
in The Declaration of Independence?
• One reason - it
matched the
message of natural
rights
• Jefferson knew “all
men are created
equal” and slavery
did not match
12. Why put a resolution condemning slavery
in The Declaration of Independence?
• Another reason - to
appeal to the north
and abolitionists
• The first reason is
more likely
• Another reason,
according to some
people - Jefferson
actually hates slavery
13. Why take it out?
• John Adams and
others knew that
with that in the
declaration they
would lose the
support of the
southern colonies
for independence
• The Southerners
wanted it out
14. John Adams
• Was against slavery
but argued to take
anti slavery language
out of the Declaration
of Independence
• Slaveholder Jefferson
put it in
• History is sometimes
messy
15. Guided
Practice:
• We hold these truths
to be self-evident, that
all men are created
equal, that they are
endowed by their
Creator with certain
unalienable
Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty
and the pursuit of
Happiness
• Read this
16. Check for
Understanding:
• We hold these truths to
be self-evident, that all
men are created equal,
that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness
• Do you understand what
this means?
17. Thurgood Marshall:
• First African
American
Supreme Court
Justice
• Lead attorney
who argued
Brown V Board
of Education
18. Independent Practice:
• Read Thurgood
Marshall’s essay
on the founders
• Answer the
questions
designed to
check your
comprehension
do you really
understand what
Marshall is
saying?
19. Exit Ticket:
• Who was
Thurgood
Marshall?
• What was his
argument
regarding the
American
Revolution?
