Oklahoma Social Studies 8.C.13.3

8.C.13.3 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• 8.C.13.3.A

  Identify the various motives of carpetbaggers including economic gain, exploitative aims, and genuine concern for the civil and political rights of freed Blacks...

• 8.C.13.3.B

  Describe the expansion of the tenant and sharecropper systems which enabled landowners to reestablish a labor force severely restricting economic mobility.

• 8.C.13.3.C

  Examine the political and social goals of the Ku Klux Klan, including its acts of intimidation and violence against African Americans.

• 8.C.13.3.D

  Describe the migration of African Americans from the discriminatory conditions of the South to opportunities in the north and west.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students compare why northern newcomers came South, including profit, exploitation, and support for Black rights. They explain how farm debt limited workers' choices and how Klan violence blocked Black voting. They connect conditions in the South to Black migration north and west.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given a short farm contract, students identify who controls the land, how the worker pays, and how debt can carry over. They use evidence to distinguish someone seeking profit, someone exploiting farmers, and someone supporting Black rights. They explain why a family might leave despite the barriers they could face elsewhere.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may assume all northern newcomers were cheats, or all came to help freedpeople. They may think tenant farmers and sharecroppers owned their land or could easily pay off store debt. They may see Klan violence as random crime and assume moving north or west ended discrimination.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: One newcomer buys cheap land; another helps freedpeople vote. A sharecropper owes the store, and a Klan threat keeps a Black voter from the polls. Ask students to explain the two motives, two barriers, and one reason a family might move to Kansas.

1. 01

   Give pairs a ledger showing harvest sales, the landowner's share, and store debt; have them calculate what a sharecropper takes home.

2. 02

   Read three brief newcomer accounts of buying land, overcharging farmers, and protecting Black voters; ask what motive each account suggests.

3. 03

   Sort cards reading 'store credit,' 'masked threats at polls,' and 'Kansas farm work' under debt, voter intimidation, and migration.

4. 04

   Compare a sharecropping contract with a current apartment lease; mark who owns the property, how rent is paid, and who bears extra costs.

• MWH.C.7.4

  Analyze political and cultural transformations occurring in East and Southeast Asia during the postwar era.

• 8.C.13.4.B

  Examine the development of segregated societies in the South as a result of social norms and legal statutes such as Black Codes.

• USH.C.1.2

  Analyze the post-Reconstruction civil rights struggles of African Americans.

• 8.C.13

  Analyze the political, social, and economic transformations during the Reconstruction Era.