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 shaped social and economic life in the South after 1800 (e.g., how the cotton gin and the opening of new lands in the South and West led to increased demands for slaves; differences in the lives of plantation owners, poor free black and white families, and slaves; methods of passive and active resistance to slavery; escaped slaves and the Underground Railroad).
• 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).
• Know how to view the past in terms of the norms and values of the time.
• Use reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts.
• Use viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media.
• Understand the characteristics and components of the media.
• Understand and apply media, techniques, and processes related to the visual arts.
• Know how to use structures (e.g., sensory qualities, organizational principles, expressive features) and functions of art.