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Pitcher Honoring Frederick Douglass

Pitcher Honoring Frederick Douglass

Grade Range: K-12
Resource Type(s): Artifacts, Primary Sources
Date Posted: 9/29/2008

This hand-modeled and molded, unglazed red earthenware pitcher honors Frederick Douglass, "Slave Orator/ United States Marshall, Recorder of Deeds D.C./ Diplomat."


National Standards

United States History Standards (Grades 5-12)

Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

1: United States territorial expansion between 1801 and 1861, and how it affected relations with external powers and Native Americans
 
2: How the industrial revolution, increasing immigration, the rapid expansion of slavery, and the westward movement changed the lives of Americans and led toward regional tensions
 
3: The extension, restriction, and reorganization of political democracy after 1800
 
4: The sources and character of cultural, religious, and social reform movements in the antebellum period
 

Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

1: The causes of the Civil War
 
2: The course and character of the Civil War and its effects on the American people
 
3: How various reconstruction plans succeeded or failed
 

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