Alabama Social Studies SS24.4.15

SS24.4.15 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.4.15a

  Explain political changes in Alabama during Reconstruction, including new state constitutions, Black Codes, changes in political parties, voting rights, and cit...

• SS24.4.15b

  Describe the effects of Reconstruction on education and social institutions in Alabama.

• SS24.4.15c

  Explain how Africatown was established, describing the challenges its founders overcame and the ways they built community.

• SS24.4.15d

  Recount the contributions of Alabamians who helped shape their state during Reconstruction.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students put major Reconstruction events in order and explain how Alabama's laws changed voting, citizenship, political parties, and schools. They describe how Africatown's founders bought land and built a community. They explain what Alabamians such as Benjamin Turner did during this period.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can explain that Black Codes restricted freedom, while federal amendments protected citizenship and Black men's voting rights. They can compare the 1868 constitution's school provisions with the 1875 constitution's requirement for separate schools. They can name Benjamin Turner as a congressman and Cudjo Lewis as an Africatown founder.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think citizenship meant Black Alabamians were treated equally, or that the Fifteenth Amendment gave women voting rights. They may think Africatown's land was given to its founders rather than purchased by them.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Name one policy that expanded Black men's voting rights, one law that restricted Black Alabamians' freedom, and one way Africatown's founders built community.

1. 01

   Give pairs dated cards for the Black Codes, 1868 constitution, Fifteenth Amendment, and 1875 constitution; have them build a timeline and label each effect.

2. 02

   Ask partners: What did Alabama's 1868 school rule offer, and what did its 1875 school rule require? Use two dated fact cards.

3. 03

   Play a matching round with cards for Benjamin Turner, Cudjo Lewis, and Alabama's 1868 and 1875 constitutions, pairing each with an action or effect.

4. 04

   Find Africatown and Mobile on a state map, then write why the founders stayed nearby when they could not afford to return to Africa.

• SS24.US1.13b

  Compare congressional and presidential Reconstruction plans, including the legislation and constitutional amendments each plan proposed and passed.

• SS24.US1.13e

  Develop an argument regarding how national and regional events and trends brought Reconstruction to an end.

• SS24.US1.13

  Evaluate how Reconstruction affected the economic, political, and social landscape of the South.