UNIT 4: African American History How was the African American experience different from other groups in American history?
SLAVERY: Myth v. Fact http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=11&psid=3807
ORIGINS OF SLAVERY http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery/videos/origins-of-slavery# Identify: Indentured Servants 1641 Chattel Black Gold Internal slave trade
A NATION DIVIDED North: Industrial South: Agricultural COMPROMISE OF 1820: COMPROMISE OF 1850: KANSAS/NEBRASKA ACT:
ABOLITION OF SLAVERY http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery/videos/abolition-and-the-underground-railroad
How and why did slavery come to an end? Primary Source Activity: http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/frederick-douglass http://video.pbs.org/video/2295592489/ http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/235-clip.jpg http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/emancipation-150/10-facts.html
POLITICAL RIGHTS: 13th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment LT2: The Immediate and Long Term Influences of Reconstruction on African Americans and the U.S. POLITICAL RIGHTS: 13th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment
13th: Abolishes slavery 14th: Provides Equal Protection and Due Process (legal rights) Extremely important for many pivotal cases for the next 150 years. 15th: The right to vote To whom? How is it limited? Who might have a problem with this?
Political Reality: Black Codes Voting “Requirements” Literacy tests Explain specific things that are outlined by these codes. Voting “Requirements” Literacy tests http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/06/28/voting_rights_and_the_supreme_court_the_impossible_literacy_test_louisiana.html Poll Taxes Grandfather Clause Therefore….many blacks never registered to vote.
SOCIAL/ECONOMIC REALITY: Sharecropping After reading document: 1. What in this contract seems to benefit the sharecropper? 2. What does not seem beneficial to the sharecropper? Segregation Violent Organizations