Teammates+Reinforcing+Activity


 * __Grade __****: ** 5
 * __Strand __****: ** History
 * __Topic __****: ** Historical Thinking and Skills
 * __Content Statement: __**1. Multiple-tier timelines can be used to show relationships among events and places.

- //Teammates // - Timeline Examples - Posters
 * Materials – **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The teacher should begin by showing the class multiple examples of timelines and explaining how to read a timeline. The teacher should also explain the importance of timelines. Next the students should create a timeline of their life. This will help them to understand how to create one and how to choose the most important events.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Have students read the book //Teammates//. After reading, the class will discuss what the book was about, important events that occurred throughout the book, and the importance of what happened at the end of the book. Be sure to bring up The Civil Rights Movement.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Pull up the list of dates for The Civil Rights Movement. Have the students create their own timeline of the events on the list. Ask them to pick out 10-15 dates that they think are the most important. Require that they include 1947- Jackie Robinson, first African American baseball player to play for the all white Dodgers baseball team on their timeline. Ask them to create this on a poster and have them draw illustrations to go along with the dates/ events they selected.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Walk around the class and look to see what the students picked for the most important events. Pick a few students, with different events on their timelines to present their timelines and explain why they picked certain dates/ events.

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Possible timeline dates that the teacher can select to use for the lesson: __

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1783 Massachusetts outlaws slavery within its borders. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1808 The importation of slaves is banned in the U.S., though illegal slave trade continues. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1820 The Missouri Compromise to maintain a balance of 12 slave and 12 free states. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1831 In Virginia, Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion during which 57 whites are killed. U.S. troops kill 100 slaves. Turner is caught and hanged. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1850 In the Compromise of 1850, California is admitted into the union as a Fugitive Slave Laws are strengthened and slave trade ends in Washington, D.C. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1857 The Supreme Court rules in the Dred Scott case that slaves do not become free when taken into a free state, that Congress cannot bar slavery from a territory and that blacks cannot become citizens. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1861 Southern states secede and form the Confederate States of America; Civil War begins. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1863 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation freeing "all slaves in areas still in rebellion." <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1865 The Civil War ends. The 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, is ratified. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1868 The 14th Amendment, which requires equal protection under the law to all persons, is ratified. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1870 The 15th Amendment, which bans racial discrimination in voting, is ratified. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1896 The Supreme Court approves the "separate but equal" segregation doctrine. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1909 The National Negro Committee convenes. This leads to the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1925 In its first national demonstration the Ku Klux Klan marches on Washington, D.C. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1948 President Truman issues an executive order outlawing segregation in the U.S. military. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1954 The Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional in its ruling on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1955 Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus. A boycott follows, and the bus segregation ordinance is declared unconstitutional. The Federal Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation on interstate trains and buses. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1957 Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus uses the National Guard to block nine black students from attending Little Rock High School. Following a court order, President Eisenhower sends in federal troops to allow the black students to enter the school. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1960 Four black college students begin sit-ins at the lunch counter of a Greensboro, North Carolina, restaurant where black patrons are not served. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1961 Freedom Rides begin from Washington, D.C., into Southern states. Student volunteers are bused in to test new laws prohibiting segregation. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1962 President Kennedy sends federal troops to the University of Mississippi to end riots so that James Meredith, the school's first black student, can attend. The Supreme Court rules that segregation is unconstitutional in all transportation facilities.The Department of Defense orders complete integration of military reserve units, excluding the National Guard. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1963 Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is killed by a sniper's bullet. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech to hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington, D.C.A church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, leaves four young black girls dead. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1964 Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, declaring discrimination based on race illegal.The 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax, which originally had been established in the South after Reconstruction to make it difficult for poor blacks to vote.Three civil rights workers, two white and one black man, disappear in Mississippi. They were found buried six weeks later. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1965 A march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, is organized to demand protection for voting rights. Malcolm X is assassinated. Malcolm X, a longtime minister of the Nation of Islam, had rejected Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s policies of non-violence. He preached black pride and economic self-reliance for blacks. He eventually became a Muslim and broke with Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad.A new Voting Rights Act, which made it illegal to force would-be voters to pass literacy tests in order to vote, is signed. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1967 Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black to be named to the Supreme Court. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1968 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray pleaded guilty of the crime in March 1969 and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1976 Negro History Week becomes Black History Month. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1978 The Supreme Court rules, in a well-known reverse discrimination case (Bakke), that medical school admission programs that allow for positions based on race are unconstitutional. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1983 The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday is established. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1988 The Democratically controlled Congress overrides a presidential veto to pass the Civil Rights Restoration Act. President Ronald Reagan vetoed the law saying it gave the federal government overreaching powers. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1990 President George H.W. Bush vetoes a civil rights bill that he says would impose quotas for employers. A civil rights bill without quotas passes in 1991. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1995-The Supreme Court rules that federal programs that consider race as a category for hiring must have "compelling government interest" to do so. The Supreme Court rules that the consideration of race in creating congressional districts is unconstitutional. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2003 -The Supreme Court upholds the University of Michigan Law School's policy, ruling that race can be one of many factors considered by colleges when selecting their students. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2005-Edgar Ray Killen, the leader of the Mississippi murders (1964), is convicted of manslaughter on the 41st anniversary of the crimes. Rosa Parks dies at the age of 92. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2006- Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., dies at the age of 78 of a stroke. Mrs. King had moved into the forefront of the civil rights movement after the passing of her husband in 1968.

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