The Runaway Dilemma: What to Do with a Fugitive Slave?
Grade Level: High School
Aim/Essential Question:  What factors did Northerners consider when deciding what to do with runaway slaves?
Objectives: To have students consider the moral dilemmas that rose out of abolitionism and debates over runaway slave laws.

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Document Analysis Exercise: A Freedom Petition
Grade Level: High School
Aim/Essential Question: What legal course of action could slaves take to protest their enslavement? How did current events affect slaves’ perceptions of freedom?
Objectives:   To have students consider how the legal system could be use to further an anti-slavery cause.  To help students consider how the ideology of the American Revolution affected perceptions about slavery.

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The Trial of William Lloyd Garrison
Grade Level: High School
Aim/Essential Question:  How might history have unfolded differently if the Confederate Army had won the Battle of Gettysburg?  What might have been the fate of prominent abolitionists had the South won the Civil War?
Objectives: To encourage students to assess the impact of an historical event on subsequent events.  To have students consider both sides of a ‘fictional’ political debate in order to understand the relevant issues from multiple perspectives.  To have students defend a position with a rational and clearly articulated argument.