UN2: Introduction - All men are created equal

​unit 2: the united states constitution

Create a title page for Unit 2 in your notebook.​

Poll

After declaring your own independence from a power over you that you have deemed abusive, how prepared are you to abolish or redesign that power?

• Extremely Prepared!

• Mostly Prepared.

• I need more time to think about what I really want.

• Not prepared at all.

Open Ended

Now, explain how you would either ABOLISH (get rid of) or REDESIGN (change the structure) that which you have declared independence from.

Directions:

1. Watch this video

2. Stop it to take guided notes​

3. Be prepared to answer questions on the following slides.​

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​Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman

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Open Ended

Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman an enslaved woman sued for her freedom on the basis of the first line of the Massachusetts Constitution, "All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights."

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What historical document does the line from the Massachusetts Constitution remind you of?

Open Ended

Describe 2 to 3 ways that Mumbet resisted enslavement.

Multiple Select

Who in this story was doing work to ensure liberty for all?

• Elizabeth Freeman

• Attorney Theodore Sedgwick

• Massachusetts courts

• The new United States government.

​go back to classcraft and continue to the next task.

Well done! You are becoming more and more independent, a true scholar and thinker.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights... life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."