During the Reconstruction Era, Americans were attempting to rebuild following a catastrophic war. Restoring the eleven states that seceded from the Union would be fraught with controversy and comprised a legal revolution for enslaved people. Native Americans were expelled off lands they once lived on. President Roosevelt announced the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, whereby the U.S. claimed the right to intervene in Caribbean and Central American countries to forestall varying lengths of time. As WWI raged in Europe, it became clear that the U.S. could not stay out it indefinitely.
Students will be able to:
Compare and contrast plans for Reconstruction.
Evaluate Radical Reconstruction.
Describe and analyze what life was like for African Americans in the South during Reconstruction.
Analyze the significance of the election of 1876 and the end of Reconstruction.
Determine the cause and effect of the conflict between Native Americans and white settlers.
Identify the causes and effects of imperialism in the late 1800s.
Explain how the United States acquired territories in the Pacific.
Identify territories acquired by the United States after the Spanish-American War.
Compare and contrast the Roosevelt Corollary, dollar diplomacy, and moral diplomacy.