Course Objectives: A. Apply terms relevant to the content appropriately and accurately. B. Identify and interpret different types of primary and secondary sources of fundamental importance and relevance to topical inquiry and understanding. C. Identify, analyze, and understand elements of historical cause and effect; recognize and understand patterns of change and continuity in history. J.
Develop open-ended historical questions that can be addressed through historical research and interpretation
Standard B3: Building a Nation (Civil War and Reconstruction)
Course Objectives: C. Describe the basic provisions and immediate impact of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. D. Evaluate different Reconstruction plans and their social, economic, and political impact on the South and the rest of the United States. E. Analyze the immediate and long-term influences of Reconstruction on the lives of African Americans and U.S. society as a whole
Essential Vocabulary:
- Freedman’s Bureau
- Reconstruction
- 13th amendment
- 14th amendment
- 15th amendment
- Radical Republicans
- Scalawag
- Carpetbagger
- Sharecropping
- Ku Klux Klan
- Wade–Davis Bill
- Plessy v. Ferguson
Geography Benchmark A: Analyze the cultural, physical, economic and political characteristics that define regions and describe reasons that regions change over time.
Places and Regions
1. Explain how perceptions and characteristics of geographic regions in the United States have changed over time including:
a. Urban areas;
b. Wilderness;
c. Farmland;
d. Centers of industry and technology.
People in Societies Benchmark B: Analyze the consequences of oppression, discrimination and conflict between cultures.
Interaction
3. Explain how Jim Crow laws legalized discrimination based on race.
4. Analyze the struggle for racial and gender equality and its impact on the changing status of minorities since the late 19th century
Citizenship Benchmark A: Analyze ways people achieve governmental change, including political action, social protest and revolution.
Participation
1. Describe the ways in which government policy has been shaped and set by the influence of political parties, interest groups, lobbyists, the media and public opinion with emphasis on:
a. Extension of suffrage;
c. Civil rights legislation;
