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| Voodoo IIFaced with intense opposition in the French ruling class, the African slaves of Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, took their traditional Vodou religion underground by combining it with Roman Catholicism.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Voodoo IOriginating in the ancient indigenous cultures of Africa and merged with many characteristics of Roman Catholicism in the early years of slavery, Vodou is practiced by many in Haiti and in the Haitian diaspora.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Samuel Davies & Slave Literacy ITeaching slaves to read became increasingly illegal in the antebellum South. Nevertheless, a small number of slaves achieved literacy through the efforts of courageous whites and even that of some slaves themselves.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Samuel Davies & Slave Literacy IIAlthough teaching slaves to read was forbidden, the Rev. Samuel Davies, inspired by the Great Awakening, led a campaign to bring slaves the light of knowledge and of the Gospel.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Lane and Quantrill IIIn the years leading up to the American Civil War, the territory of Kansas was the scene of extensive guerrilla warfare. James Henry Lane led a band of free-soil raiders.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Lane and Quantrill IIn the years before the Civil War bleeding, Kansas produced two guerrilla leaders who laid waste to the countryside--inflaming passions on either side of the question of slavery--James Henry Lane and William Quantrill.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Lane and Quantrill IIIIn the bloody run up to war during the 1850s, the Territory of Kansas attracted its share of drifters seeking to take advantage of the conflict over slavery. One of those was William Clarke Quantrill.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| John Winthrop & Mass Bay Colony IDuring the 1630s, English Puritans by the thousands left their homeland to build a new home in Massachusetts. Many were inspired by their leader, John Winthrop.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| John Winthrop & Mass Bay Colony IIDuring the 1630s, John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, established strict order in Boston and in surrounding settlements, but the godly order he organized was soon under challenge.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Breakup of the African Family IIEstate sales. Wedding and christening gifts. In the antebellum South, these were occasions when slaves were sold or gifted, occasions to break up African families.Grades 3-5 | 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
