Attitudes About Slavery In a Northern Community
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- Compare and contrast differing sets of ideas, values, personalities, behaviors,
and institutions by identifying likeness and differences.
- Consider multiple perspectives of various peoples in the past by demonstrating
their differing motives, beliefs, interests, hopes, and fears.
- Evaluate major debates among historians concerning alternative interpretations
of the past.
- Formulate historical questions from encounters with historical documents.
- Interrogate historical data by uncovering the social, political, and economic
context in which it was created; testing the data source for its credibility,
authority, authenticity, internal consistency and completeness; and detecting
and evaluating bias, distortion, and propaganda by omission, suppression,
or invention of facts.
- Demonstrate understanding of how the North and South differed and how politics
and ideologies led to the Civil War.