SS10.5.12
Summarize successes and failures of the Reconstruction Era.
Summarize successes and failures of the Reconstruction Era.
Unpacked Content
UP:SS10.5.12
Vocabulary
- Reconstruction Era
- extension
- citizenship rights
- amendments
- impact
- education reform
- black codes
- Jim Crow
- tenant farming
- distribution
- sharecropping
- Radical Republicans
- 13th Amendment
- 14th Amendment
- 15th Amendment
Knowledge
Students know:
- Successes and failures of the Reconstruction Era.
- The extension of citizenship rights to African Americans included in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
- The impact of Reconstruction for its effect on education and social institutions in the United States( Horace Mann and education reform, Freedmen's Bureau, establishment of segregated schools, African-American churches, among others).
- The black codes and the Jim Crow laws.
- Post-Civil War land distribution, including tenant farming and sharecropping.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Evaluation successes and failures of historical events.
- Compare and contrast changes in historical and political realities as a result of a historical event.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- The Reconstruction Era was a period of success, failures, and conflict that greatly impacted the lives of citizens, including African-Americans.
