UNIT 4: African American History How was the African American experience different from other groups in American history?

SLAVERY: Myth v. Fact  &psid= &psid=3807

ORIGINS OF SLAVERY  history/slavery/videos/origins-of-slavery# 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  history/slavery/videos/abolition-and-the-underground-railroad history/slavery/videos/abolition-and-the-underground-railroad

How and why did slavery come to an end? Primary Source Activity:    clip.jpg clip.jpg  150/10-facts.html 150/10-facts.html

LT2: The Immediate and Long Term Influences of Reconstruction on African Americans and the U.S.  POLITICAL RIGHTS:  13 th Amendment  14 th Amendment  15 th Amendment  merican-civil-war/reconstruction merican-civil-war/reconstruction

 13 th : Abolishes slavery  14 th : Defines Citizenship, Equal Protection and Due Process (legal rights)  Extremely important for many pivotal cases for the next 150 years.  15 th : The citizen's right to vote cannot be denied by state/federal gov't  Who can now vote? Who might have a problem with this?

Political Reality: How states get around the 15th Amendment  Black Codes  Explain specific things that are outlined by these codes.  Voting “Requirements”  Literacy tests  _rights_and_the_supreme_court_the_impossible_litera cy_test_louisiana.html _rights_and_the_supreme_court_the_impossible_litera cy_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

 The story of Reconstruction in the American South echoes that broader concern with labor control. Immediately following the war, all-white state legislatures passed "black codes" designed to force freed blacks to work on plantations, where they would be put to work in gangs. These codes denied blacks the right to purchase or even rent land. Vagrancy laws allowed authorities to arrest blacks "in idleness" and assign them to a chain gang or auction them off to a planter for as long as a year. Other statutes required blacks to have written proof of employment and barred blacks from leaving plantations. The Freedmen's Bureau, ostensibly designed to aid former slaves, helped to enforce laws against vagrancy and loitering and refused to allow ex-slaves to keep land that they had occupied during the war. One black army veteran asked rhetorically: "If you call this Freedom, what did you call Slavery?"

Jim Crow Era 

RECONSTRUCTION: success or failure?  Make a t-chart and cite evidence in this reading:  sp sp

Emerging African American leaders  Booker T. Washington  W.E.B. DuBois 