Unit 4.4 Classwork & Homework: The Reconstruction Era

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13 questions

Note from the author:

Content Objective: I will be able to recognize the modern and historical significance of The Reconstruction Era.

Standard Objective: I will be able to draw reasonable inferences and logical conclusions from text.

Instructions

Content Objective: I will be able to recognize the modern and historical significance of The Reconstruction Era.

Standard Objective: I will be able to draw reasonable inferences and logical conclusions from text.

Required

Unit 4.4 Classwork & Homework: The Reconstruction Era

Last updated over 1 year ago

13 questions

Note from the author:

Content Objective: I will be able to recognize the modern and historical significance of The Reconstruction Era.

Standard Objective: I will be able to draw reasonable inferences and logical conclusions from text.

Instructions

Content Objective: I will be able to recognize the modern and historical significance of The Reconstruction Era.

Standard Objective: I will be able to draw reasonable inferences and logical conclusions from text.

Louisiana Literacy Test Reflection Questions 

Literacy Tests emerge in the period of time right after the Civil War known as the Reconstruction Era. These tests were created in the South to keep Black people from exercising their voting rights. The Reconstruction Era marks a period of both progress and pain in our country. Let’s learn more...

What were your thoughts while taking this test? How did you feel thinking that your grade was going to be impacted based on your score?

Write the first three words that come to your mind when thinking about this test. No explanation needed, just write the words down.

Why do you think these tests were purposely used instead of simply telling Black Americans they were not allowed to vote?

Righting Wrongs: Today, several states in the Deep South have to prove to the government that they have a certain percentage of black voters registered.

Reconstruction Era Classwork Notes

Required

Although the official end of the Civil War was at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, not all enslaved Blacks knew until June 19, 1865, when General Lee finally arrived at Galveston, Texas to notify the last enslaved African Americans of their _______ . 

Today, we celebrate this day as _______ , which most recently became a national holiday in 2021 due to the activism of #BLM protestors.

Required

The Reconstruction Era refers to the period _______  the Civil War when attempts were made to redress [fix] the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy.

 The U.S. federal government also needed to determine how to _______  the 11 Confederate states back into the Union.

After the war, formerly enslaved African Americans responded to freedom in different ways. After celebrating the end of the war and their new freedom, most tried to _______  with their separated families.

 Some set up new institutions, including schools, while participating in politics by voting and even serving in government.

Required

Although formerly enslaved African Americans were _______  land and resources from the government to set up their own farms, most did not receive these. Some who did receive land and resources later had them taken away. 

Newly freed people had to figure out how to survive and support their families.

For about 10 years after the Civil War, the federal government provided _______ such as finding employment, housing, and education to the formerly enslaved and took steps under _______  Reconstruction to protect their political and civil rights, but these advances were later overturned.

During the 1870s, more than a _______  African American men were elected to the U.S. Congress. This was historically significant because many of these newly freed _______  were born into slavery, but this period ended all too quickly.

Despite the gains Black people made following the Civil War, _______  against these new rights grew stronger in the _______ .

_______  emerged that were intentionally designed to keep Black people from using their voting rights _______ .

The _______  was established as a defining organization of the Reconstruction era. It sought to counter the progress of African Americans by using _______ and _______  against African-American leaders.

STOP! THE REMAINDER OF THIS FORMATIVE IS INDEPENDENT HOMEWORK. 

Please read the following excerpt from the Congressional Record, Thaddeus Stevens makes the case for confiscation and redistribution of land in the South.

Required

As used in line 8, "untouched" most nearly means

Required

Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

—Excerpts from speeches by Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, 1865, as published in the Congressional
Record

Unit 4.4 Classwork & Homework: The Reconstruction Era

Unit 4.4 Classwork & Homework: The Reconstruction Era

What were your thoughts while taking this test? How did you feel thinking that your grade was going to be impacted based on your score?

Write the first three words that come to your mind when thinking about this test. No explanation needed, just write the words down.

Why do you think these tests were purposely used instead of simply telling Black Americans they were not allowed to vote?

STOP! THE REMAINDER OF THIS FORMATIVE IS INDEPENDENT HOMEWORK.

As used in line 8, "untouched" most nearly means

Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

What were your thoughts while taking this test? How did you feel thinking that your grade was going to be impacted based on your score?

Write the first three words that come to your mind when thinking about this test. No explanation needed, just write the words down.

Why do you think these tests were purposely used instead of simply telling Black Americans they were not allowed to vote?

STOP! THE REMAINDER OF THIS FORMATIVE IS INDEPENDENT HOMEWORK.

The author indicates that the nation should handle the aftermath of the Civil War by

As used in line 8, "untouched" most nearly means

As presented in the passage, Stevens would most likely agree that

Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

Based on this passage, Stevens believes his plan will work because

The author indicates that the nation should handle the aftermath of the Civil War by

As presented in the passage, Stevens would most likely agree that

Based on this passage, Stevens believes his plan will work because