Content Specification - SS.11.3.b.1:
Students will compare different perspectives on States rights by examining the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and the nullification crisis.

Content Specification - SS.11.3.b.2:
Students will investigate the development of the abolitionist movement, focusing on Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison (The Liberator), Frederick Douglass (The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass and The North Star), and Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin).

Content Specification - SS.11.3.b.3:
Students will examine the emergence of the women’s rights movement out of the abolitionist movement, including the role of the Grimké sisters, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and evaluate the demands made at the Seneca Falls Convention (1848).

Content Specification - SS.11.3.b.4:
Students will examine the issues surrounding the expansion of slavery into new territories, by exploring the Missouri Compromise, Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican‐American war, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas‐Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision, and John Brown’s raid.