Lessons

Monday, February 19
What did black pastors say about education in 1855?

Tuesday, February 20
How many different counties were blacks found in?

Wednesday, February 21
What were the major occupations for blacks in California in the 1850s?

Thursday, February 22
Why was the right to sit freely in street cars an important issue in the 1860s?

Friday, February 23
What were the major contributions of William Alexander Leidesdorff?

Monday, February 26
Where did black Californians serve during the Civil War?

Tuesday, February 27
What was the relationship between the Emancipation Proclamation and the repeal of the right of testimony law?

Wednesday, February 28
What are the lessons for current citizens from the strategies employed by  California abolitionists in the 1850s and 1860s?
 
Tuesday, Feb. 13
Content standard: 
4.3 Students explain the economic, social, and political life in California from the establishment of the Bear Flag Republic through the Mexican-American War, the Gold Rush, and the granting of statehood.
Key Fact:  The California legislature passed  the 394th section of chapter 3d of an act entitled "an act for regulating proceedings in the court practice of the courts of this State' as follows "And persons having one-half or more of negro blood, shall not be witnesses in an action or proceeding to which a white person is a party" 

Why did the legislature pass the law?

            Who were the new members of the legislature?

            Were Californios represented?

            Were Native Americans represented?

            What was the practical efffect of this law on gold miners?

            What did African-Americans have to lose from this law?
Lessons

Thursday, February 1
Why California mattered
to the abolition issue?

Friday, February 2
How could black Californians affect the course of slavery?

Monday, February 5
What organizations did black Californians use to affect policy?

Tuesday, February 6
What individuals led the anti-slavery movement?

Wednesday, February 7
What impact did John Brown have on U.S. history?

Thursday, February 8
Why did Mary Ellen
Pleasant contact John Brown?

Friday, February 9
How did Mexico and the United States deal with the slavery issue differently?

Monday, February 12
How different was the role of Spanish-speaking blacks under Mexican rule from the role of English-speaking blacks under U.S. rule?

Tuesday, February 13
Why was the right of testimony law important to California blacks?

Wednesday, February 14
What happened to Peter Lester in his boot shop in downtown San Francisco?

Thursday, February 15
Why did the right of habeas corpus help blacks who moved to California?

Friday, February 16
What was the reaction to the first colored convention?
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