American Civil War and Abolition of Slavery

Who were the key individuals who:

• campaigned to abolish slavery
• campaigned against the North abolishing slavery in the South

What were the key arguments?

Who were the key individuals on either side of the civil war?

What were the key events leading up to and during the civil war?

Why do you think the South was defeated and the Confederates forced to agree to federal law?

What role did black people play in the civil war?

How did life change for black people after the war?

PPT8 on the Civil War

Analysis of why the war took place.

Uses abbreviations like:

w/o - without

Br - British

S. - South

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Ppt 8 american civil war from DB3igs

PPT9 Civil War Timeline

Key individuals, key events...

Ppt 9 africanamericans civilwar from DB3igs

JIM CROW LAWS

What were these?

Give examples!

How did they come about, and over what time period?

Were they used across the entire USA?

What link do they have to the civil rights movement of the 1950s-70s?

In your own words, to what extent did these contradict the legal changes that abolition brought?

PPT10 Jim Crow Laws

Slavery was abolished ... but in some ways crept back in through customs that became laws, creating the conditio0ns that would eventually spark the 1950s-70s civil rights movement.

Ppt 10 jim crow laws from DB3igs

PPT10b The Rise of Jim Crow Laws

Ppt 10 rise of jim crow from DB3igs

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SLAVERY life in the plantation

A short task...

Ppt 3 life on the plantations from DB3igs

Life as a house slave




Life for women wasn't what you might think ...



Resistance eventually grew...

Ppt 4 slavesresistance from DB3igs

Slave Trade: Middle passage and auctions

LESSON: TUESDAY 8TH MARCH

TASK: In pairs or threes, read each other's memoir (like a diary written when you are older looking back at your life) entry on the middle passage.
Sum up what you have learnt from this, and identify anything else you think should be covered in the memoir.
Comment on how convincing you think the memoir entry is: does it read like it is written by a desparate, terrified, confused young boy/girl who has been grabbed from their village, marched in chains to the dock and thrown on a boat, crammed in amongst 100s of others, with little food or water, no toilet, and people dying around them ... all while not really knowing where they are going?

Take notes on the feedback you receive; you will be re-drafting your memoir entry.

Use the remaining time to take notes from the resources below, some of which we will use in the next lesson. Note points which you can use to make your memoir more convincing and detailed.

THE MEMOIR
This topic is assessed through a memoir you write as we go along. Your entries need to reflect what you've learned, and can include quotes from specific sources that you (as the slave) may have encountered. As it is a memoir, you could also reflect on events or opinions that occur a little later than each stage, as you are looking back on your life in 1865...

POWERPOINTS
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Slave Trade resources

Lots of videos on YouTube.

10-min Crash Course Guide
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