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List of Benchmarks for World History 
 Standard 33.Understands the causes and consequences of the agricultural and industrial revolutions from 1700 to 1850
  
Topics1. Abolition of the slave trade; 2. Causes and consequences of slavery; 3. Slavery; 4. Role of individuals in history
   Level II (Grade 5-6)
  Benchmark 3.Understands aspects of the abolition movement in the 18th and 19th centuries (e.g., the organization and arguments of movements in Europe and the Americas that sought to end slavery, and how the trans-Atlantic slave trade was suppressed; why and how the slave trade continued after it had been outlawed; major accomplishments of the American abolitionist Frederick Douglass)
   Vocabulary terms
A.  abolition movement (18th and 19th centuries)
  Knowledge/skill statements
  1. Understands the organization of movements in Europe and the Americas that sought to end slavery   
  2. Understands the arguments of movements in Europe and the Americas that sought to end slavery   
  3. Understands how the trans Atlantic slave trade was suppressed   
  4. Understands why and how the slave trade continued after it had been outlawed   
  5. Knows major accomplishments of the American abolitionist Frederick Douglass   


Citation Log: BD(BE,189;​R;​WE,214)
Citation reference
BD = benchmark, declarative
BP = benchmark, procedural
BC = benchmark, contextual

1st letter/number of each code in parentheses:
B   NCHS: Basic Edition
L   Lessons from History
W   NCHS: World History, expanded edition

2nd letter code :
E = Explicitly stated in document
I = Implicit in document

Number:
Page number of the cited document