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Unit 1: The Era of Reconstruction

Unit 1: The Era of Reconstruction. Lesson 6: The Sharecropping System. Learning Objective. SWBAT describe the conditions of sharecropping and explain how these conditions lead to a cycle of poverty for freedmen in the South. Word of the Day/ Initial Activity. Tenet Farmers

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Unit 1: The Era of Reconstruction

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  1. Unit 1: The Era of Reconstruction Lesson 6: The Sharecropping System

  2. Learning Objective • SWBAT describe the conditions of sharecropping and explain how these conditions lead to a cycle of poverty for freedmen in the South.

  3. Word of the Day/ Initial Activity • Tenet Farmers • Freedmen who rent land to farm on. • Freedom or not? • Base your answers upon observations of the picture below. • What do you see? • Why might these freedmen turn to farming after the Civil War? • Discussion • Why would freed slaves stay in the South to farm rather than traveling to the north and starting a fresh life?

  4. Model: Picture Analysis • What do you see? • What are the significance of these observations? • How can you relate this to your background knowledge • How can you apply these observations to a question? • Apply these observations to the question: • How did sharecropping create slave-like conditions for freedmen?

  5. The Sharecropping System • Southern farmers broke after the war • No more slaves, fields trampled, equipment stolen • Turn to freed slaves as new “employees” • Called sharecropping- creates a cycle of poverty • Freedmen rent land on plantations • Need to buy supplies and equipment on credit • Debt repaid with crop yield- never can fully payoff • Freedmen have to work off debt, legally can never leave land.

  6. Sharecropping: Turn & Talk Benjamin Mays, On growing up as a sharecropper "In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks." What words stand out here? • 1 minute to write down a response to this question: How has the sharecropping system helped develop this relationship between blacks and whites in the South? • Turn & Talk: 30 seconds per partner • Share Out

  7. Activity: Picture Analysis • Focus Question: How did the sharecropping system create a cycle of poverty for newly freed slaves? • ReadSharecropping After the Civil War • Tips for completing this activity: • 1. Review the questions first to familiarize yourself with the focus of the reading (questions are chronological). • 2. Read the article carefully looking for keywords or phrases that stand out. • 3. Answer the questions in complete sentences. • Share Out

  8. Summary • Exit Ticket • How did Sharecropping economically oppress the freedmen in the South? • Parking Lot • Develop one critical thinking question from today’s mini-lesson or activity. • Write onto post-it and place onto parking lot. You will address these questions as a class during the initial-activity each following day.

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