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Period 5, Day 5: The Potential of Reconstruction - SY23

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Note from the author:
Content Objective: I will be able to identify at least 2 successes 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 2 successes 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: Please rate how well you understood last night's pre-work on a scale from 1 to 4. If you have any questions, drop them in the "Show Your Work" area

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Warm Up: What was your experience like growing up with Barack Obama as the first Black President? Explain.

Building Knowledge Together: Please follow along with class notes.

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The Reconstruction era refers to the period _______ the Civil War when attempts were made to redress 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.
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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 _______ to the formerly enslaved and took steps under _______ Reconstruction to protect their political and civil rights, but these advances were later overturned.
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Guided Viewing: Who was Senator Hiram Revels?

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Guided Viewing: Why do you think it is important for newly freed African Americans to be able to serve in public office?

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Please match each key term to the corresponding description.

If you get stuck, ask your table group but avoid searching to the Google to promote teamwork and collaboration as you prepare for next week's SAQ together!

Draggable itemCorresponding Item
15th Amendment
Bans slavery everywhere in the U.S.
14th Amendment
Grants citizenship and equal protection of laws to all U.S. citizens
Emancipation Proclamation
Grants suffrage [the right to vote] to all U.S. citizens regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
13th Amendment
Bans slavery in the Confederacy

Applying Knowledge: Now let's take a look at three key primary sources to better understand this time period.

The Fifteenth Amendment


Section 1
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section 2
The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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What is missing from the amendment that grants the right to vote? In other words, who still cannot vote at this point (1877) in U.S. History? Explain.

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

“No sooner had Northern armies touched Southern soil than this old question, newly guised, sprang from the earth, — What shall be done with slaves?”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

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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 emancipation or the reunification of the Union!]

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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).

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Exit Ticket: Please evaluate how well you understood today’s lesson on a scale from 1 to 4: