Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Alabama faced many political issues during Reconstruction including military rule, presence of Freedmen's Bureau, and Alabama's readmittance to the Union.
- Alabama faced many economic issues during Reconstruction including sharecropping, tenant farming, scarcity of goods and money.
- Many African Americans, including James Rapier, Benjamin Turner, William Savery, and Jeremiah Haralson, had an impact on Alabama during Reconstruction.
- The major political parties in Alabama, including Radical Republicans, Bourbon Democrats, and Populists.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify political issues facing Alabama during Reconstruction including military rule, presence of Freedmen's Bureau, and Alabama's readmittance to the Union.
- Identify economic issues facing Alabama during Reconstruction including sharecropping, tenant farming, scarcity of goods and money.
- Summarize the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
- Recall African Americans who had an impact on Alabama during Reconstruction in Alabama.
- Identify major political parties in Alabama during Reconstruction.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Reconstruction was the rebuilding of Alabama's government and economy after the Civil War.
- Alabama had to meet several specific criteria before being granted re-admittance to the Union and that the criteria was see as controversial by some people in the state.
Vocabulary
- Reconstruction
- political parties
- "Redeemer" Democrats
- Radical Republicans
- military rule
- readmittance
- restoration
- Union
- scarcity
