Mg13 T Chart Filled

The Founding Contradiction T-Chart — large unit-wide poster used in Lesson 12 and revisited in Lesson 21. LEFT COLUMN labeled 'WHAT THE DECLARATION SAYS' lists 6 quoted phrases: 'all men are created equal' / 'endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights' / 'Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness' / 'consent of the governed' / 'just powers' / 'right of the People to alter or to abolish'. RIGHT COLUMN labeled 'WHAT WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENING IN JULY 1776' lists 6 corresponding paired facts: '~600,000 enslaved African Americans were held in chattel slavery, ~1 in 5 colonists' / 'Thomas Jefferson, the principal author, himself enslaved ~175 human beings at the time' / 'Women, including white women, could not vote or own property as married women' / 'Indigenous nations were not parties to the Declaration — their sovereignty was not acknowledged' / 'Propertyless white men could not vote in most colonies' / 'In the Declaration's complaints against King George III, an early draft accused him of imposing the slave trade — that paragraph was REMOVED at the insistence of Southern delegates and Northern delegates with shipping interests'. Below the T-chart, a single banner reads: 'This contradiction is not a footnote. It is the defining feature of the American founding. Holding both — the promise AND the contradiction — is how historians do their work.' Style: rigorous, dignified, no glib graphics.