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.
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Warm Up: Do the adults in your family vote? Explain.
Warm Up: Do the adults in your family vote? Explain.
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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.
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How did taking the test make you feel? Which particular questions or phrases that stand out to you?
How did taking the test make you feel? Which particular questions or phrases that stand out to you?
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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?
Why do you think literacy tests were purposely used instead of simply telling Black Americans they were not allowed to vote?
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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!
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!
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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).
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:
Exit Ticket: Please evaluate how well you understood today’s lesson on a scale from 1 to 4: