Alabama Social Studies SS24.AS.14

SS24.AS.14 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.AS.14a

  Trace the history of Black institutions in Alabama from their establishment during Reconstruction to the present.

• SS24.AS.14b

  Evaluate the role of new labor systems, Black Codes, and violence in stemming civil rights progress following Reconstruction in Alabama.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how emancipation and Reconstruction expanded freedom and rights in Alabama. They trace a Black institution from its founding to today. They explain how sharecropping, Black Codes, and racial violence limited those gains.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students can identify emancipation, citizenship, and Black men's voting rights as gains. They can explain how Black Codes, sharecropping debt, and racial violence undercut those gains. They can trace Lincoln Normal School's 1867 founding to today's Alabama State University.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think emancipation brought equal rights overnight. They may place Alabama's 1865 Black Codes after Reconstruction or treat sharecropping as full economic freedom. They may assume Alabama's Black colleges began in the 1960s.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Name one freedom gained after emancipation. Rank sharecropping, Black Codes, and racial violence as barriers in Alabama, justify your top choice, and identify what Lincoln Normal School became.

1. 01

   Hand groups dated cards for emancipation, Alabama's Black Codes, Lincoln Normal School, and an 1870s sharecropping contract to arrange on a timeline.

2. 02

   Ask, 'If Black men gained the vote, how could debt or threats still keep them from voting?' Require one Alabama example.

3. 03

   Play a card match: pair citizenship, voting, and schooling gains with a Black Code, sharecropping debt, or racial intimidation; defend each match.

4. 04

   Print Alabama State University's history and degree pages; students find its 1867 name and one current degree, then describe the link.

• SS24.US1.12e

  Trace the progression of emancipation during and after the Civil War, including the effects of self-emancipation, the Emancipation Proclamation, Juneteenth, and...

• SS24.US1.19

  Describe the emergence of the New South economy and Jim Crow era, and explain the corresponding efforts to secure civil rights by Black Americans after Reconstr...

• SS24.US1.13e

  Develop an argument regarding how national and regional events and trends brought Reconstruction to an end.

• SS24.US1.13c

  Explain how ownership of one’s own labor and land were equated with freedom by freedpeople, and describe emerging labor systems that sought to limit this freedo...