Period 5, Day 1: The Institution and Inhumanity of Slavery - SY23

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10 questions
Note from the author:
Content Objective: I will be able to compare and contrast the experience of freed and enslaved Blacks in the Antebellum [pre-Civil War] era.

Standard Objective: I will be able to identify explicitly stated relationships or determine implicit relationships between and among individuals, events, or ideas.

Absent? Just want to review the guided notes? Slides are linked here.
Content Objective: I will be able to compare and contrast the experience of freed and enslaved Blacks in the Antebellum [pre-Civil War] era.

Standard Objective: I will be able to identify explicitly stated relationships or determine implicit relationships between and among individuals, events, or ideas.

Absent? Just want to review the guided notes? Slides are linked here.
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Warm Up: Please rate how well you understood last night's pre-work on a scale from 1 to 4.

If you have any questions or learned any interesting facts from the EdPuzzle, drop them in the "Show Your Work" area.

Building Knowledge Together: Please follow along as we take notes as a class.

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The southern plantation system resembled an _______ (rule of the few) with its monopoly on “King Cotton.” Though blacks accounted for 75% of the population in some parts of the deep South, only about 1 in 4 white southerners actually owned slaves or belonged to a slaveholding family.

The enslaved had no political or civil rights, were forbidden to testify in court. They were not allowed to read and write because masters believed that reading brought new _______ that might lead to discontent.

Most of the enslaved were raised in stable, two-parent households (though the law did not legally recognize these marriages). The enslaved often fought the system of slavery by slowing down the pace of their labor, banding together to rebel, and _______ to escape to the North where slavery was illegal.

Applying Knowledge: Well done! Let’s now apply the new knowledge and vocabulary that we just learned to today’s topic.

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As used in line 6 of this section, "rested" most nearly means

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Which statement is best supported by the graph and the information in the passage?

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It can be reasonably inferred that members of the "planter aristocracy"

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Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

Explain why under "Show Your Work" in your own words.

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Most of the large majority of Southern whites who did not own slaves nonetheless supported the slave system partly because they

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The passage indicates that, before the Civil War, Northern attitudes towards free blacks were

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Exit Ticket: Compare and contrast the historical experience of freed Blacks and enslaved Blacks.
  • Bullet point responses are sufficient so long as you reference specific facts and details from the reading as examples.
  • Your group should identify at least one similarity and one difference.

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Exit Ticket: Please evaluate how well you understood today’s lesson on a scale from 1 to 4: