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Find Law: Landmark Decisions ActivityFind Law: Landmark Decisions Activity
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Thomson Reuters
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9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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Find Law: Landmark Decisions

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This site details the controversial issues regarding slavery and the effects they had on the Civil War amendments as well as on the fifth amendment. The site discusses events such as the Dred Scott case, the addition of the Civil War amendments, Ex Parte Virginia, and the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Links to further information on these events are provided throughout the text.

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Concepts

segregation, slavery, civil rights, dred scott

Additional Tags

amendment, fourteenth amendment, supreme court, missouri compromise, an early triumph, chief justice taney, civil rights act of 1875, civil rights cases, civil war amendments, ex parte virginia, fifteenth amendment, fifth amendment, free at last, from slavery to segregation, louisiana territory, separate but equal doctrine, strauder v. west virginia, supreme error, thirteenth amendment, plessy v. feguson, scott v. sandford, amendments

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

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