Unit Topic: Reconstruction
Clarifying State Standards
•H.2.1 - Explain the impact of economic, political, social, and military conflicts (e.g. war, slavery, states' rights and citizenship and immigration policies) on the development of North Carolina and the United States.
•C&G.1.4 - Analyze access to democratic rights and freedoms among various groups in North Carolina and the United States (e.g. enslaved people, women, wage earners, landless farmers, American Indians, African Americans and other ethnic groups).
Vertical Alignment
Coming into this unit, students should have a strong foundation in:
•Understanding of international economics and dependence on both raw and manufactured goods.
•Constructing charts, graphs, and historical narratives to explain particular events or issues.
•Summarize the literal meaning of historical documents in order to establish context.
•Using primary and secondary sources to interpret various historical perspectives.
•Using historical inquiry to evaluate the validity of sources used to construct historical narrative
Essential Understanding(s)
The students will understand that…
•H.2.1 - The conclusion of the Civil war saw some short term increases in the rights of African Americans and a shift from agricultural dependence to manufacturing in the South.
•C&G.1.4 - Attempts to create freedoms and rights for newly freed slaves were met with great resistance.
Essential Question(s)
•H.2.1 - What impact did the conclusion of the Civil War have political, social and economic systems in the South?
•C&G.1.4 - How did the southern states resist government’s attempts to provide freedom to newly freed slaves, such as the addition of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
Essential Vocabulary
Students will know…
Clarifying State Standards
•H.2.1 - Explain the impact of economic, political, social, and military conflicts (e.g. war, slavery, states' rights and citizenship and immigration policies) on the development of North Carolina and the United States.
•C&G.1.4 - Analyze access to democratic rights and freedoms among various groups in North Carolina and the United States (e.g. enslaved people, women, wage earners, landless farmers, American Indians, African Americans and other ethnic groups).
Vertical Alignment
Coming into this unit, students should have a strong foundation in:
•Understanding of international economics and dependence on both raw and manufactured goods.
•Constructing charts, graphs, and historical narratives to explain particular events or issues.
•Summarize the literal meaning of historical documents in order to establish context.
•Using primary and secondary sources to interpret various historical perspectives.
•Using historical inquiry to evaluate the validity of sources used to construct historical narrative
Essential Understanding(s)
The students will understand that…
•H.2.1 - The conclusion of the Civil war saw some short term increases in the rights of African Americans and a shift from agricultural dependence to manufacturing in the South.
•C&G.1.4 - Attempts to create freedoms and rights for newly freed slaves were met with great resistance.
Essential Question(s)
•H.2.1 - What impact did the conclusion of the Civil War have political, social and economic systems in the South?
•C&G.1.4 - How did the southern states resist government’s attempts to provide freedom to newly freed slaves, such as the addition of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
Essential Vocabulary
Students will know…
- Reconstruction- was the time period from 1865-1877 when the United States was the rebuilding and reuniting after the Civil War.
- Amendments- Articles added to the US Constitution to serve as changes or additions to the original document. The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were added during Reconstruction.
- Sharecropping- an arrangement where a landowner and a renter split the proceeds from selling the crop raised on the rented land
- Radical- a person who believes their political position to the extreme; during Reconstruction, Radical Republicans controlled Congress.
- Moderate- a person in the middle of his/her political party, with beliefs that are not in the extreme one way or the other
- Freedman Bureau- a federal agency set up after the Civil War to help formerly enslaved persons and poor whites by providing food, clothing, and other essentials, as well as helping them get an education.
- Black Codes- laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War that strictly limited the freedom of formerly enslaved people