Alabama Social Studies SS24.US1.19a
The Standard
- 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 Reconstruction.
Explain how Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), and violence shaped the economic, political, and social structure of the New South after Reconstruction.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how segregation laws and the Plessy ruling protected racial separation in public places. They show how violence and intimidation limited Black citizens' voting, work, and daily life. They connect those limits to who held power in the New South.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how a poll tax could block voting, how Plessy upheld separate train cars, and how intimidation kept people from the polls. They can connect these barriers to white political control and fewer opportunities for Black workers.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think Plessy created Jim Crow or that separate facilities offered equal treatment in practice. Others see lynchings and threats as isolated crimes, rather than ways to suppress voting and protect white political power.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How did Plessy support segregated train cars? Name one way intimidation restricted voting and one way segregation limited Black workers' options.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Print cards labeled poll tax, separate railcar, Plessy ruling, sharecropping debt, and voter intimidation; groups sort them under work, voting, and public life.
Ask students to write: How did a poll tax and voter intimidation work together to keep Black citizens from the polls?
Play a claim-check round with 'Plessy created Jim Crow,' 'Separate meant equal access,' and 'Threats affected voting'; students correct each false claim.
Show a historic segregated rail sign beside today's transit nondiscrimination policy; students name the legal change and one limit of the comparison.
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