Alabama Social Studies SS24.HG.9b
The Standard
- SS24.HG.9
- Identify and explain world migration patterns caused by forced displacement throughout history.
Explain the causes and consequences of migration within the United States ,citing historical examples.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Migration and Settlement
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain why people moved between places in the United States. They use historical examples to show what changed in the places people left and the places they settled.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can link Jim Crow laws and factory jobs to the Great Migration, then explain how migration helped Black communities grow in Chicago. They can also link drought and crop failure to moves from the Great Plains to California and describe the effect on farm work there.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students reverse the direction of the Great Migration or say Dust Bowl families moved out of California. Others name a reason people left but never explain what happened after they moved.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Why did many Black families move from the South to Chicago during the Great Migration, and what changed in Chicago? Include one specific historical fact.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a U.S. map and Great Migration and Dust Bowl event cards; have them draw routes and label one cause and one consequence.
Ask students to write: Why might a Southern Black family move to Chicago in 1920, and what challenges could they face there?
Have teams sort eight cards into causes and consequences of the Great Migration or Dust Bowl migration, then defend one choice.
Show a current apartment listing from a nearby city and a 1917 Chicago Defender job ad; compare the reasons each gives someone to move.
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