USH Chapter 22, Part 2: The Ordeal of Reconstruction (1865-1877)
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Welcome to Part 2 of your Chapter 22 reading! As you read, consider the following essential question:
Was the Reconstruction period a success or failure?
As always, "Focus Questions" should guide your reading and notes, but you do not necessarily have to explicitly answer them.
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Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
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Data in the map about Military Reconstruction most strongly supports which of the following statements?
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Enfranchise is just a fancy word for granting the right to vote!
You may have heard the word disenfranchise before, which means the exact opposite since dis = not.
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As used in line 2 of paragraph 3, "faithfully" most nearly means
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Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
One achievement of the Reconstruction era was the election of the first African American senator, Hiram Revels of Mississippi (pictured on the far left), and several members of the House of Representatives from the South.
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After a brief period of Republican control in the South which saw major improvements in the lives of African Americans, Southern states instituted new laws aimed at intimidating black political activities.
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The passage indicates that the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) formed as a direct result of
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Excellent reading! Close out this Chapter by reviewing the "Chapter Summary" and using the "rectangle" tool to box the 5 most important key terms in the space provided.
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Do you have any feedback or questions about the Formative reading or comprehension questions that you want to go over in class?
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Please take a second and rate how well you understood this reading.
Before you submit, ask yourself:
Have I listened to OR read ALL of the reading? (Yes/No)
Did I double check that I have answered ALL the questions? (Yes/No)
If you answered yes to BOTH questions - you can submit your pre-work!
What should you do next?
Preview the discussion question to prepare for class this week, but...
Do NOT answer #14-15 since we will complete it as classwork.
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In your esteemed historical opinion, was Reconstruction a success or a failure?
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Explain your answer above using at least one specific key term with historical reasoning.
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I believe that the Reconstruction period was a _____[success/failure/both a success and failure]_____ because _____[historical reasoning with key term]_____.
The passage indicates that Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 prompted
an extension of the Freedmen's Bureau.
Congress to pass the Thirteenth Amendment.
a law to overturn the Black Codes.
Congress to pass the Fourteenth Amendment.
Paragraph 1, Line 8-10 ("The hapless... the government")
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As used in line 1, "erupted" most likely means
After the CIvil War, the Confederate South was divided into 5 districts under the military rule of a Union general.
The Reconstruction Act of 1867 grouped Arkansas and Mississippi in separate military districts.
Texas was the earliest Confederate state to rejoin the United States in 1870.
South Carolina was the first state to leave the Union, but the first to rejoin at the end of the Civil War.
religiously
Many feminist leaders were deeply disappointed with the Fifteenth Amendment because
they gave black women but not white women the right to vote.
they failed to give women the right to serve on juries.
it gave suffrage to African American males but not to women.
it failed to define what constituted equal national citizenship.
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The passage indicates that, after Black men gained suffrage, they were able to
The passage indicates that the goal of the Ku Klux Klan was to
enforcing the Force Acts of 1870 and 1871.
keeping blacks “in their place" -- that is, subservient to whites.