Alabama Social Studies SS24.AS.14b
The Standard
- SS24.AS.14
- Explain how emancipation and Reconstruction produced both an expansion of rights and freedoms and a backlash against this expansion.
Evaluate the role of new labor systems, Black Codes, and violence in stemming civil rights progress following Reconstruction in Alabama.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Civil Rights
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how sharecropping debt, convict leasing, Black Codes, and violence limited Black Alabamians' freedom. They use evidence to judge how these forces worked together during and after Reconstruction.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how a vagrancy arrest could lead to convict leasing and how threats could keep someone from voting. They place Black Codes just after the Civil War, not after Reconstruction ended.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think Black Codes began after Reconstruction or that sharecropping and slavery were the same thing. They may focus on laws and overlook how debt and threats limited people's choices.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How could a vagrancy arrest lead to convict leasing? In two more sentences, explain how sharecropping debt and threats could each limit Black Alabamians' freedom.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs paper crop shares and debt slips, then have them calculate whether a tenant farmer can repay the store after harvest.
Ask: Which blocked civil rights more in Alabama, vagrancy laws or threats of violence? Defend your answer with two source details.
Play a card match: pair a Black Code, a convict lease, and a voter threat with the freedom each restricted.
Read an Encyclopedia of Alabama entry on convict leasing, then write a two-sentence label for a local museum display about its effects.
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