Transcript Starter 2/13/12 Write and answer

African America Studies
Starters
Starter 2/13/12
Write and answer
Prior Knowledge Questions
1. What was Lincolns goal in the Civil War?
2. What document freed slaves in rebelling
states?
3. What could happen to blacks fighting for the
Union if they were captured by Confederate
troops? What about white officers?
Emancipation Proclamation
As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln believed that slaves should be emancipated,
advocating a program in which they would be freed gradually. Early in his
presidency, still convinced that gradual emancipation was the best course, he tried
to win over legislators. To gain support, he proposed that slave owners be
compensated for giving up their "property." Support was not forthcoming.
In September of 1862, after the Union's victory at Antietam, Lincoln issued a
preliminary decree stating that, unless the rebellious states returned to the Union
by January 1, freedom would be granted to slaves within those states. The decree
also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states
took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation.
The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or
designated part of the State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the
United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."
The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the United States. Rather,
it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control. William
Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state, commented, "We show our sympathy with
slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in
bondage where we can set them free." Lincoln was fully aware of the irony, but he
did not want to antagonize the slave states loyal to the Union by setting their
slaves free.
The proclamation allowed black soldiers to fight for the Union -- soldiers that were
desperately needed. It also tied the issue of slavery directly to the war.
Starter 2/14/12
Read “Emancipation Proclamation” Write and answer
the questions
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3.
What proposal did Abraham Lincoln
make in trying to convince slave owners
to free their slaves?
To what states did the Emancipation
Proclamation apply to?
What was one effect of this
proclamation?
The Fight for Equal Pay
Even as they fought to end slavery in the Confederacy, African-American
Union soldiers were fighting against another injustice as well. The U.S.
Army paid black soldiers $10 a week (minus a clothing allowance, in some
cases), while white soldiers got $3 more (plus a clothing allowance, in
some cases). Congress passed a bill authorizing equal pay for black and
white soldiers in 1864.
By the time the war ended in 1865, about 180,000 black men had served as
soldiers in the U.S. Army. This was about 10 percent of the total Union
fighting force. Most—about 90,000—were former (or “contraband”) slaves
from the Confederate states. About half of the rest were from the loyal
border states, and the rest were free blacks from the North. Forty
thousand black soldiers died in the war: 10,000 in battle and 30,000 from
illness or infection.
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“Fight for Equal Pay”
1. Describe the difference in pay between a
black soldier in the Union army and a white
soldier in the Union army? (Don’t use
numbers)
2. Of the 180,000 black men who served in the
U.S. army during the civil war, what percent
were former slaves?
3. How many of these solders died in the war?
2/16
Prior Knowledge Questions
1. Who fought in the Civil War?
2. How was the Union able to sue runaway
slaves to fight?
3. What slaves did the Emancipation
Proclamation free?
4. What was the 54th Massachusetes Regiment?
2/17/12 “The Washington-Du Bois
Debate”
1. How did W.E.B. Du Bois explain the success of
Booker T. Washington’s approach?
2. What personal beliefs and values formed the
foundation for Du Bois’s rejection of
Washington’s teachings
Starter2/22/12
Atlas of African American History page. 121 “The
“New Negro”
1. Looking at the Chart what trend do you
notice about the pupil expenditure of
students in the selected states?
2. Under “The Early Civil Rights Movement”
what was key to advancing the interests of
African Americans? (3)`
Starter 2/23/12
Atlas page 133 “The Great Migration” map
1. What region received the highest number of
Migrating African Americans?
2. Why do you think many blacks were
migrating to this region?
3. What were 2 major African American
population centers and destinations?
Starter 2/27/12
Red U.S. History Book page 661 Write and
answer
1. Along what river is Harlem located?
2. What jazz band became influential during the
Harlem Renaissance?
3. Why did Harlem become the location for the
Harlem Renaissance?
Starter 2/29
Atlas of AA History page 136
1. Define Minstrelsy
2. What is the historical significance of Swing?
3. Name one Bebop figure.
Starter 3/1/12
U.S. History book page 660 “The Harlem
Renaissance Flowers in New York” Write and
answer.
1. Where were some of the places that African
Americans migrated from when they moved
to Harlem, New York?
2. What name did James Weldon Johnson give
to Harlem, New York?
3. What problems did the urban neighborhood
face?
Starter 3/2
Answer the following questions…..do not write them.
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4.
Can the U.S. president be impeached ____ y/n
What does the FBI stand for?
What is a tribunal?
Prior to the adoption of the U.S. Constitution the
collection of states were called______.
5. Can a state coin money with the consent of
Congress? y/n
6. What officer of the U.S. is designated to be
president of the Senate?
Starter 3/5
Atlas of African American History page 137 “The
Great Depression”
1. Where did 80% of blacks live during the 1930’s?
2. Describe the effect of the Great Depression on
Urban blacks.
3. What do you think it means by “it didn’t mean
too much to the (black man), the Great
American Depression, as you call it?”
“The Great Depression” 3/7/
1. What was the effect of the Great Depression
on Black farmers and share croppers?
2. What resistance did African Americans face
while looking for employment during the
Great Depression?
3. Who acted as a go between with the
President and civil rights activists?