Alabama Social Studies SS24.AS.11d
The Standard
- SS24.AS.11
- Outline Alabama’s participation in events leading to the Civil War and in the war itself, and explain how the war created change within the state.
Compare and contrast how the Civil War affected the lives of different groups of Alabamians, including enslaved people and women.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Conflict
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare how the war changed work, food, family life, and freedom for enslaved Alabamians and white women. They identify hardships both groups faced without treating those experiences as equal. They also recognize that enslaved women belonged to both groups.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name a shared hardship and two differences, using details from wartime sources. They can explain why freedom did not arrive for every enslaved Alabamian at the same time.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think the Emancipation Proclamation freed every enslaved Alabamian immediately. Others assume all women had the same wartime experience, or equate food shortages with enslavement.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How did the war change daily life for an enslaved Alabamian and a white Alabama woman? Name one shared hardship and one difference, with an example of each.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs four Alabama source cards: a letter, ration notice, labor record, and freedom account; have them sort by group and impact.
Ask students to write why an enslaved woman might face both forced labor and food shortages, while a white woman faced shortages but not enslavement.
Have teams sort 12 wartime event cards into enslaved people, white women, or both, then defend two choices.
Look up an Alabama Civil War historical marker online; name a group it mentions and a group whose wartime experience it leaves out.
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