UP:SS10.US1.15

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.

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.

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.