AAS.SS.8.B

Explain how sharecropping and redlining limited economic opportunities for African Americans.

Ethnic Studies: African American Studies · Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) · TEKS 2010

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Vocabulary
sharecroppingredliningeconomic opportunitiesAfrican Americans
Skills
  • explain (how sharecropping limited economic opportunities for African Americans) #dok2
  • explain (how redlining limited economic opportunities for African Americans) #dok2
  • describe (the impact of sharecropping) #dok1
  • describe (the impact of redlining) #dok1
  • analyze (the connections between economic systems and African American experiences) #dok3
Learning Targets
  • I can describe the impact of sharecropping on African Americans’ economic opportunities. #dok1
  • I can describe the impact of redlining on African Americans’ economic opportunities. #dok1
  • I can explain how sharecropping limited economic opportunities for African Americans. #dok2
  • I can explain how redlining limited economic opportunities for African Americans. #dok2
  • I can analyze how economic systems such as sharecropping and redlining influenced the long-term economic status of African Americans. #dok3
Big Ideas
  • Sharecropping and redlining were systems that significantly restricted economic opportunities for African Americans.
  • Institutional structures like sharecropping and redlining have had long-term impacts on the economic mobility of African Americans.
Essential Questions
  • How did sharecropping shape the economic opportunities available to African Americans after the Civil War?
  • What is redlining, and how did it affect the economic advancement of African American communities?
  • In what ways did sharecropping and redlining reinforce systemic economic inequality?
  • How do the legacies of sharecropping and redlining continue to influence African American economic experiences today?
  • What strategies have African Americans used to overcome the barriers created by sharecropping and redlining?