Unit 3.13 Classwork: Literacy Tests & the Rise of the KKK
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Content Objective: I will be able to identify at least one success and one failure of the Reconstruction period.
Standard Objective: I will be able to draw reasonable inferences and logical conclusions from text.
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Content Objective: I will be able to identify at least one success and one failure of the Reconstruction period.
Standard Objective: I will be able to draw reasonable inferences and logical conclusions from text.
Absent? Just want to review the slides? Click here.
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Warm Up: Do the adults in your family vote? Explain.
Building Knowledge Together: Please follow along with class notes.
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Question 2
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Although the _______ Amendment protected Black men’s right to vote, many southern whites came up with ways to keep Black people from voting.
By 1900, _______ , or blocking the Black vote, was almost complete, hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan used violence, intimidation, and _______ to keep blacks from exercising their right to suffrage.
_______ often surrounded polling places, so many black voters stayed away from the polls for fear of racial violence.
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Question 3
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Some legislatures passed a _______ , which required voters to pay money before they could vote. Many African-Americans were too poor to pay the tax and could not vote.
_______ test laws required voters to be able to read a passage before voting. At the time, about _______ of African-Americans could not read so they could not vote. Questions were designed so that the test-takers would pass or fail simply at the discretion of the test administrator.
Wouldn’t these practices exclude the _______ vote? Southern policymakers found a way around this by enacting the _______ clause, which _______ anyone whose grandfather had voted from having to pay poll taxes or take literacy tests.
Applying Knowledge: Now let's take a look at three key primary sources to better understand this time period.
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How did taking the test make you feel? Which particular questions or phrases that stand out to you?
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Question 5
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Why do you think literacy tests were purposely used instead of simply telling Black Americans they were not allowed to vote?
Question 6
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Exit Ticket: Identify one historical development or event that supports the idea that the Reconstruction era (1865-1877) was a success.
Be sure to support your answer with a specific historical key term (event, person, or concept). Challenge yourself by avoiding obvious answers like banning slavery or the reuniting the Union!
Question 7
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Exit Ticket: Identify one historical development or event that supports the idea that the Reconstruction era (1865-1877) was a failure.
Be sure to support your answer with a specific historical key term (event, person, or concept).
Question 8
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Exit Ticket: Please evaluate how well you understood today’s lesson on a scale from 1 to 4: