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Table of contents

Introduction Pages

Unit 1: From Africans to African Americans

Evolution of the slave trade........................................

Slave resistance: .........................................................

Abolitionist: .............................................................

Unit 2: Slavery comes to an end

Abraham Lincoln.........................................................

Civil War.....................................................................

Unit 3: Freedom

Reconstruction2

Jim crow the rise of the Ku Klux Clan................ Pages

The Great Migration.........................

African Americans in sports...........

African Americans role in WWII/Tuskegee Airmen............

Cold War and its impact on the African American Civil Rights Movement.......

Civil Rights Movement: MLK/ Malcolm X/ BPP/ SNCC, Women of the civil rights Movement..

Unit 4: Modern African American Issues

War on drugs / its impacts on the African American community

Mass Incarceration / New Jim Crow.....................................................................

Election of president Obama and current state of African American communities.......

The main reason for the slave trade were the Europeans who started their colonies which eventually caused them to buy the Africans to spend time working for them. The first slaves were from the west coast. slavery in the colonies change overtime because it became more severe when the Europeans realized that they needed more people to work and later on, they revolt.

UNIT 1: From Africans to African Americans

Most of the slaves who came in North America was from West Africa. So briefly, the first slaves came from Africa. There were many laws and beliefs about slavery.

Federal fugitive slave law 1850

-slaves who escape would have to return back to their owners. -Slave trade was illegal in Washington DC. Helping slaves escape brought people to jail.

The Northerners refused to support the Federal fugitive slave law because they had a belief that they would also be supporting slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe and her brother were abolitionists who ran campaign against slavery and they also helped slaves who ran away. Harriet wrote a novel titled "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to show her anger on slavery. In her novel, she describes the unfair situations that the slaves were enduring. Such as how the were getting captured from running away.

VOCABULARY

Fugitive: someone who escapes by running away.

Abolitionist: someone who wants to abolish a harmful law.

Federal fugitive slave law:a law that allows the slaveholders from the south to carry weapons to capture runaway slaves.

ABOLITIONIST

The way that slaves resists slavery were rebellions, running away and hold on to their culture. Slaves had different ways to resist their enslavement. They were rebellions, running away and hold on to their culture.

Traditions in the slave communities: Religion, music, folklore

Slave Resistance

Can you name the Abolitionist that was mentioned in this section?

What's the role of an Abolitionist?

What was the name of the novel that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote on slavery?

SHORT QUIZ!

Unit 2 Slavery comes to an end

After slavery ended, slaves found it hard to find a job because all they know was working in gardens. So, their jobs were mostly based on working on lands which were owned by the whites. However, some of the slaves chose another path to find jobs that aren't field related. After congress made slavery illegal, the slaves moved to different places to enjoy their freedom.

The slaves moved north and west. The ones who moved west found themselves jobs on the railroads. Also, there were others who worked as housecleaners. They worked as cooks and babysitters. Fortunately, some of them were lucky enough to start their own business. The slaves who travelled to the west were known as settlers. Unfortunately for them, there was a law in the west that stopped them from travelling there. So they moved back where they came from which was Africa.

Ex-slaves Jobs and where they lived

Civil War : effect on slavery

The white southerners would wage war in order to make the confederacy a separate and independent nation free to promote slavery. The white northerners, on the other hand , wanted to maintain the union but it doesn't mean they wanted to free slaves. When the civil war comes to an end in April 1865, there were about 750k people were dead, including 50k of African Americans. The union was protected and about 4 million black people were freed.

According to slavery, Abraham Lincoln wanted to stop slavery from expanding. The slaves were angry with him because they thought his speech would abolish slavery and not expand it. He also moved toward emancipation and wanted compensation. When compensated emancipation was rejected by border states in 1862, he decided Union brings victory. The northerners and westerners refused to accept the idea of freeing black people. He eventually abolished slavery.

Abraham Lincoln's role in slavery ending

Emancipation: to pay slave owners for their slaves then force ex-slaves to settle outside the USA.

African Americans played an important role in the civil war. There were about 200,000 who served in the union army. And 37,000 of them died in that army. Even though African Americans soldiers didn't have the same rights as the other whites soldiers, they still believed serving the union army was the loyal thing to do. Most of them who served in that army were slaves who escaped. African Americans were paid lower wages than whites. Also, most of the jobs that were assigned to them involved getting killed. They had the most difficult jobs. Later on, fourteen African Americans earned Medal of Honor for their outstanding works of bravery and was assigned meaningful jobs in the Union Army.

African Americans role in the civil war

SHORT QUIZ!

What restricted African Americans from moving to the west after the civil war?

What was one the jobs that African Americans had?

How many people were freed from slavery?

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