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

2. SLAVERY: Myth v. Fact

3. ORIGINS OF SLAVERY
Identify:
Indentured Servants
1641
Chattel
Black Gold
Internal slave trade

4. A NATION DIVIDED North: Industrial South: Agricultural
COMPROMISE OF 1820:
COMPROMISE OF 1850:
KANSAS/NEBRASKA ACT:

8. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY

9. How and why did slavery come to an end? Primary Source Activity:

10. 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

11. 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?

12. Political Reality: Black Codes Voting “Requirements” Literacy tests
Explain specific things that are outlined by these codes.
Voting “Requirements”
Literacy tests
Poll Taxes
Grandfather Clause
Therefore….many blacks never registered to vote.

14. 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