1. Research the role slavery played in the economic development of the United States.

2. Research slavery. What clothes did slaves own and how did they get them?

Describe their living quarters. How did these possessions differ with slave status, i.e., field hands and house slaves?

3. Read the Emancipation Proclamation and the history surrounding it. Identify its merits and shortcomings.

4. Research colonies in the mid-1800s. Why did they fail? Did any succeed at helping slaves become free and productive?

5. Moses and the African Americans spent several weeks on a clipper ship headed for the island. Find out the types of ships used for travel in 1864. Describe them using boating terms of the era.

6. Learn about the War between the States.

What benefits arose out of this tragedy?

What failures?

7. Characterize President Abraham Lincoln. Why did he emancipate slaves?

What sacrifices...