Reconstruction (SS8H6)

SS8H6 Analyze the impact of Reconstruction on Georgia.

1. Explain the roles of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments in Reconstruction.

2. Explain the key features of the Lincoln, the Johnson, and the Congressional Reconstruction plans.

3. Compare and contrast the goals and outcomes of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the Ku Klux Klan.

4. Examine reasons for and effects of the removal of African American or Black legislators from the Georgia General Assembly during Reconstruction.

5. Give examples of goods and services produced during the Reconstruction Era, including the use of sharecropping and tenant farming

Suggested Collections 

• African American Literature (Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library)

• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (Library of Congress)

• Civil Unrest in Camilla, Georgia, 1868 : Reconstruction, Republicanism, and Race (National Archives)

• Francina Elizabeth Cox Greer King diaries, 1844-1866, 1871-1883 (Hargrett Library)

• Francina Elizabeth Cox Greer King diary, 1866-1868 (Hargrett Library)

• Governors' Letterbooks (Georgia Archives)

• Samuel Hugh Hawkins Diary, January - July 1877 (Lake Blackshear Regional Library System) 

• Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States (1872 Congressional inquiry into Klan activities in the South)

Suggested Searches

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Black codes

• Black legislators

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Freedmen's Bureau 

• Ku Klux Klan (19th century) 

• Military Construction

• Reconstruction 

• Sharecropping

• Tenant farming

Historic Georgia Newspapers

• Georgia Historic Newspapers 1866-1877 issues (all)

• Chronicling America 1866-1877 (newspapers from throughout the United States) 

Suggested DPLA Primary Resource Sets and Exhibits

• The Fifteenth Amendment 

• The Freedmen's Bureau 

NGE Articles

Georgia Public Broadcasting Resources

Posters and Postcards

• SS8H6 poster

• SS8H6 postcard

• SS8H6a poster