Unit 10 Reconstruction

Events of Reconstruction

• Student can describe the impact of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.

• Student understands the:

  • assassination of Abraham Lincoln as a significant event of the Civil War

  • purposes for amending the U.S. Constitution

  • unalienable rights and can give examples

  • legislative reform programs of the Radical Reconstruction Congress and reconstructed state governments

  • election of African Americans from the South: Hiram Rhodes Revels

  • relationship between fine arts and continuity and change in the American way of life

Problems and Impacts

• Student can explain the problems during Reconstruction.

  • political

  • economic

  • social

• Student can evaluate the impact of these problems on different groups.