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Learning Target: I will be able to explain how sharecropping created an economic system that kept southern African Americans and poor White Americans impoverished.
Illinois Social Science Standards
Illinois Social Science Standards
SS.EC.1.6-8.LC: Explain how economic decisions affect the wellbeing of individuals, businesses and society.
SS.EC.1.6-8.MdC: Explain how external benefits and costs influence choices.
SS.EC.1.6-8.MC: Evaluate alternative approaches or solutions to current economic issues in terms of benefits and costs for different groups and society as a whole.
SS.H.4.6-8.LC: Explain multiple causes and effects of historical events.
SS.H.4.6-8.MdC: Compare the central historical arguments in secondary works across multiple media.
SS.H.4.6-8.MC: Organize applicable evidence into a coherent argument about the past.
SS.CV.6.6-8.LC: Determine whether specific rules and laws (both actual and proposed) resolve the problems they were meant to address.
SS.CV.6.6-8.MdC; Analyze the purposes, implementation, and consequences of public policies in historic and contemporary settings.
SS.CV.6.6-8.MC: Develop procedures for making decisions in historic and contemporary settings (such as the school, civil society, or local, state or national government).
Key Terms
Key Terms
Sharecropping - a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land to farm, in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.
Sharecropping - a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land to farm, in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.
Debt - something, typically money that is owed or due.
Debt - something, typically money that is owed or due.
Bell Ringer Discussion
Bell Ringer Discussion
When is it a good idea to borrow something like money, and what are the dangers of debt?
When is it a good idea to borrow something like money, and what are the dangers of debt?
Lesson Notes
Lesson Notes
Sharecropping in the Post-Civil War South.mp4
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