Reconstruction Unit Plan - 1865-1877
Note: You will be responsible for learning much of the information on the test ON YOUR OWN
this time. Be prepared for quizzes on the readings and make sure to do your homework.
IB Questions:
1. In what ways did the Civil War change the economy and racial relations in the
South?
2. Evaluate the economic, social and political successes and failures of the
Reconstruction. (2009 specimen paper)
3. To what extent had Reconstruction fulfilled its aims by 1877? (2012)
4. Why, and with what results, was there political opposition to the plans for
Reconstruction in the U.S. between 1863-1867? (2013)
Objectives:
Students should be able to:
1. Explain in detail the economic, social, and political successes and failures of
Reconstruction.
2. Describe in detail the changes in the Southern economy that took place during this time
period.
3. Analyze in detail how Reconstruction affected African-Americans in the New South:
Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, and other legal issues and white resistance.
4. Analyze the differences between wartime reconstruction, presidential reconstruction,
and congressional reconstruction.
Readings:
1. By Friday, May 24 - read p.473-484 in The American Promise
2. By Tuesday, May 28 - read p.484-497 in The American Promise
3. By Friday, May 31 - read p.497-505 in The American Promise
Note Cards:
Reconstruction
Black Codes
Thaddeus Stevens
Spoils System
KKK
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Radical Republican
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13 , 14 , 15 Amendments (1 card for each)
Scalawag
Carpetbagger
Sharecropping
Jim Crow
Free Labor
Suffrage/franchise
New South
Antebellum
Note Cards Due: Friday, May 31st
Reconstruction Graded Discussion on Friday, May 31st.