Grade 4- Resources

Kid Citizen Episode: Capture the Flag

4.MS.3 Investigate the Native American tribes
of historic Mississippi.

1. Identify the location of major tribes within Mississippi: Choctaw, Chickasaw,
and Natchez.

2. Compare and contrast the cultures and lives of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and
Natchez tribes of historic Mississippi (e.g., homes, roles, beliefs, clothes,
games, traditions, food, etc.).

3. Discuss the impact of the removal of Native Americans from Mississippi.

The Case of the Clock – (BB) Assessment

Mississippi: Selected Library of Congress Primary Sources- ‘Mississippi’ map- Primary Source Set

4.MS.5 Describe the Antebellum society of
Mississippi. 

1. Outline the rise of Mississippi cotton culture.

2. Link cotton culture to the rise of slavery.

3. Discuss the leaders of the abolition movement and the importance to the
end of slavery in the South.

Slave Quarters – (BB) Assessment

Antebellum South – (BB) Assessment

A Perspective on Slavery – (BB) Assessment

4.MS.7 Evaluate the impact of Reconstruction
and Post-Reconstruction on Mississippi.

1. Contrast life from the Antebellum period to post Civil War (e.g., population,
economy, government, infrastructure, etc.).

2. Explain the use of sharecroppers as a response to the end of slavery.

3. Describe how the Jim Crow laws disenfranchised African Americans in
Mississippi.

A Perspective on Slavery – (BB) Assessment

Jim Crow and Segregation – Primary Source Set

4.MS.8 Analyze the Civil Rights Movement to
determine the social, political, and
economic impact on Mississippi. 

1. Define discrimination, prejudice, segregation, integration, suffrage, and civil
rights.

2. Identify important figures of the modern Civil Rights Movement including
Mississippians (e.g., Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, James
Meredith, Fannie Lou Hamer, Charles Evers, etc.).

3. Identify and explain events of the modern Civil Rights Movement, including
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Jim Crow laws, Freedom Summer, and
James Meredith’s admission to the University of Mississippi.

4. Analyze the importance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights
Act of 1965 as it relates to Mississippians.

Civil Rights Movement in Context – (BB) Assessment

Jim Crow and Segregation-  Gwendolyn M. Patton oral history interview – Primary Source Set

Jim Crow and Segregation- Demonstrators marching in the street holding signs – Primary Source Set

Rosa Parks – Primary Source Set

The NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom – Primary Source Set

“Supreme Court Kills Segregation”: Newspaper coverage of Brown v. Board of Education

Rosa Parks describes her arrest for refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, December 1, 1955

African American students walk through a crowd of white boys during a period of violence related to school integration, Clinton, TN, 1956

Freeman A. Hrabowski remembers the bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church (go to 48:52)

Final plans for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

March on Washington organizers Bayard Rustin and Cleveland Robinson

The Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington

Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X at the U.S. Capitol during Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Vivian Malone, one of the first African Americans to attend the University of Alabama, walks through a crowd to register for classes

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, 1965

Civil Rights Memorial, Montgomery, Alabama

4.MS.11 Evaluate how geographic factors influence life and work in Mississippi.

1. Describe the division of labor within Mississippi (e.g., government, industry,
agriculture, etc.).

2. Determine how land use impacts Mississippi’s economy (e.g., cotton farming
vs. soybean farming, pastureland vs. industrial development, beaches vs.
casinos, landfills vs. parks, etc.).

3. Explain the benefits and challenges of trade for Mississippi.

4. Describe the economic impact of natural disasters (e.g., hurricanes,
tornadoes, earthquakes, etc.).