Chapter 19
Reconstruction
Expectations of the Student
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Identify major eras and events in U.S. history– Reconstruction—describe its causes and effects
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Explain the economic, political, and social problems during Reconstruction and evaluate their
impact on different groups
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Describe the impact of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments on life in the U.S.
Guiding Questions
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Compare and Contrast President Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction with Congress’s plan.
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How did the South try to control the newly freed African American?
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How did the nation grow economically, politically and territorially after the Civil War?
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How and why did Reconstruction come to an end?
Essential Vocabulary
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Reconstruction
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amnesty
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Radical Republicans
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Freedmen’s Bureau
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black codes
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Civil Rights Act
of 1866
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Reconstruction Act
of 1867
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Ku Klux Klan
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sharecropping
Fourteenth
Amendment
Transcontinental
Railroad
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poll tax
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literacy test
Fifteenth
Amendment
Compromise of
1877
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Jim Crow laws
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Dawes Act
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segregation
Dates to Remember
Essential People
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Andrew
Johnson
Abraham
Lincoln
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Significant Events
 Alaska Purchase
Thirteenth
(Seward’s Folly)
Amendment
John
Wilkes
Booth
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Fredrick
Douglass
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Hiram
Rhodes
Revels
Ulysses S.
Grant
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(Assignment dates are subject to change)
GPERSIA Vocab — Thursday 4/28
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The War Begins — Monday 4/18
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Ch. 18/19 People — Thursday 4/28
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Ch. 18/19 TEST —Monday 5//2
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Social Studies STAAR TEST— Thursday 5/12