SS10.US1.15
Compare congressional and presidential reconstruction plans, including African-American political participation. [A.1.a., A.1.b., A.1.c., A.1.d., A.1.e., A.1.i., A.1.k.]
Compare congressional and presidential reconstruction plans, including African-American political participation. [A.1.a., A.1.b., A.1.c., A.1.d., A.1.e., A.1.i., A.1.k.]
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Vocabulary
- effectiveness
- restructure
Knowledge
Students know:
- Congressional and presidential reconstruction plans, including African-American political participation.
- Economic changes in the post-Civil War period for whites and African Americans in the North and South, including the effectiveness of the Freedmen's Bureau.
- Social restructuring of the South, including Southern military districts, the role of carpetbaggers and scalawags, the creation of the black codes, and the Ku Klux Klan.
- The Compromise of 1877.
- Post-Civil War constitutional amendments, including the
- Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
- The causes of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.
- The impact of the Jim Crow laws and Plessy versus Ferguson on the social and Political structure of the South after Reconstruction.
- Political and social motives that shaped the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 and their long-term effect on politics and economics in Alabama.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Compare congressional and presidential reconstruction plan.
- Trace the economic changes in the post Civil War period for whites and African Americans in the North and South.
- Describe the Compromise of 1877.
- Summarize the post-Civil War constitutional amendments.
- Explain the causes of the impeachment of Presidential Andrew Johnson.
- Explain the impact of the Jim Crow laws and Plessey versus Ferguson on the social and political structure of the South after Reconstruction.
- Analyze the political and social motives that shaped the Alabama Constitution of 1901 to determine the long term political and examining effects.
- Analyze primary source documents relating to reconstruction plans, segregation, and the Constitution of Alabama of 1901.
- Determine the effects of different reconstruction plans on a map.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There were important social, economic, and political realities of the Reconstruction Era, as well as short- and long-term impacts of these realities on the United States as a whole, regionally, and in Alabama.
