Lesson Plan 13

by | Nov 16, 2018

VIDEO: Watch SIA 101.13: The Problem of Slavery in the American Founding – Part IV (Video time: 45 minutes)

REQUIRED READINGS: None

TERMS, PEOPLE, & PLACES TO IDENTIFY

Where there is a time mark, the answer is provided at the time indicated in the relevant podcast or video. Where there is no time mark indicated, the student should look up in a book or perform an Internet search for the term, person, or place.

  1. Compromise
  2. Delegates
  3. Enumerate
  4. Ex post facto laws
  5. Shay’s Rebellion
  6. Atlantic Slave Trade
  7. Electoral College
  8. Fredrick Douglass

STUDY QUESTIONS

  1. Later in United States history, who are the two historical figures that would praise the compromise made regarding slavery and the U.S. Constitution? Why? (1:30 – 2:30)
  2. How many self-governing constitutional republics existed in the world in 1787? (2:30 – 3:10)
  3. Why were delegates in Philadelphia in 1787? (3:10)
  4. What was the number on concern going into the Constitutional Convention? Why? (5:23)
  5. Other than keeping the United States together, list the four other challenges the new self-governing constitutional republic faced. (6:30)
  6. Had any country ever solved these challenges before? (7:40)
  7. What was the key idea to keep the United States unified? (9:00 – 10:25)
  8. Review the purpose of the following sections of the United States Constitution: Article I section 8, 9, 10. (10:25 – 12:30)
  9. In which section of the United States Constitution do we find the second slavery compromise? (12:30 – 13:32)
  10. What is the name of that compromise? (12:30 – 13:32)
  11. According to the Importation Clause of the United States Constitution, what was the earliest date that Congress could prohibit the international slave trade? (13:32 – 14:35)
  12. Why was the Atlantic slave trade particularly horrific? (14:35 – 18:50)
  13. What was the environment (tone) at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 regarding the conversations and debates about slavery? (18:50 – 22:53)
  14. What where the two views on slavery? (18:50 – 22:53)
  15. What was the compromise they reached? (22:53 – 25:10)
  16. Who was president in 1808? (25:10 – 26:07)
  17. What did he do that took effect January 1, 1808? (25:10 – 26:07)
  18. Which states threatened to leave the union? (26:07 – 27:50)
  19. Review Article I, section 1 of the United States Constitution. What does it establish? (29:10 – 30:20)
  20. What section of the United States Constitution is the three-fifths Clause found? (30:20 – 30:30)
  21. Review the three-fifths Clause. (30:30 – 31:50)
  22. Under the three-fifth Clause what are the two categories of ‘person’? (31:50 – 33:00)
  23. What was the original commission of the Constitutional Convention of 1787? (33:00 – 34:02)
  24. What actually ended up happening? (33:00 – 34:02)
  25. What did the delegates find to be the hardest part of designing a new constitution? (34:02 – 36:51)
  26. And how did they decide to handle this issue of legislative representation? (34:02 – 36:51)
  27. How did the delegates from the smaller states respond? (34:02 – 36:51)
  28. How did the delegates at the Constitutional Convention handle this conflict about representation? (36:51 – 38:10)
  29. How did the delegates from the states that still practiced the institution of slavery want to handle the population count for the House of Representatives? (38:10 – 39:50)
  30. How did those delegates justify their argument? (39:50 – 42:00)
  31. How did the delegates that wanted to end slavery respond? (42:00 – 44:12)