SS10.4.9

Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 4

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.

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.

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.