1. Go to the A&E Network/ History.com web page titled "Reconstruction;" watch the short video at the top of the page titled "Compromise of 1877."
2. Read the article that follows.
3. To review and reinforce your understanding of the main events of the Reconstruction period, watch the Crash Course US History video Reconstruction.
4. Using the textbook and/ or the above online resources, define the following concepts: Freedmen's Bureau, Presidential Reconstruction, Congressional (or Radical) Reconstruction, Radical Republicans, Black Codes, Compromise of 1877.
5. In your own words, briefly explain in a Quick Write why protections for equal rights that were begun in the Reconstruction era were not fully achieved at that time. Use examples from what you have learned today. Write about one page.