While exploring and comparing a variety of historical periods, students will learn about oppression, human rights, and freedom. This unit focuses on America's struggle for independence, slavery and the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the end of apartheid in South Africa. Denying human rights leads to oppression. Social, political and economic oppression can lead to changes in power through conflict and cooperation.
Vocal music expresses the beliefs and values of a culture.
Timelines can be used to track changes in power and determine causes and effects. Political power can be a positive or corrupting influence. The significance of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. The rights that Americans are entitled to by law. Slavery was a form of oppression that existed in America.