Alabama Social Studies SS24.US1.13

SS24.US1.13 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.US1.13a

  Describe the roles of key groups in seeking to influence or resist economic, political, and social change throughout the Reconstruction era in the United States...

• SS24.US1.13b

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

• SS24.US1.13c

  Explain how ownership of one’s own labor and land were equated with freedom by freedpeople, and describe emerging labor systems that sought to limit this freedo...

• SS24.US1.13d

  Describe how Black Americans in the former Confederacy established new institutions and organizations to mobilize grassroots support for political participation...

• SS24.US1.13e

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

01

What Students Need to Do

Students compare presidential plans with Congress's laws and amendments. They explain how freedpeople sought land, control of their work, and political power, and how others resisted those efforts. They use evidence to argue why Reconstruction ended.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can distinguish Johnson's pardons from Congress's Reconstruction Acts and amendments. They can explain how sharecropping limited freedom and how Black churches and Union Leagues organized voters. They can connect violence, waning northern support, and the 1877 troop withdrawal to Reconstruction's end.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may credit Johnson with the 14th and 15th Amendments, though Congress advanced them. Many assume emancipation gave freed families land or that sharecroppers kept their crops free of debt. Some overlook Black-led political organizing or treat the 1877 troop withdrawal as the only reason Reconstruction ended.

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How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Name one difference between Johnson's plan and Congress's plan. Then explain how sharecropping affected freedpeople's control of their work.

1. 01

   Sort cards labeled Lincoln's ten-percent plan, Johnson's pardons, Reconstruction Acts, 14th Amendment, and 15th Amendment into presidential and congressional columns.

2. 02

   Write a claim: Did the 1873 depression or the 1877 troop withdrawal do more to weaken Reconstruction? Explain your choice.

3. 03

   Match cards for Black churches, Union Leagues, the Freedmen's Bureau, and the Ku Klux Klan to their documented actions.

4. 04

   Compare a sample sharecropping contract with a current hourly job offer; circle who controls pay, debt, and the choice to leave.

• SS24.US1.19

  Describe the emergence of the New South economy and Jim Crow era, and explain the corresponding efforts to secure civil rights by Black Americans after Reconstr...

• SS24.4.15b

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

• SS24.4.15

  Identify major events of Reconstruction and evaluate the outcomes of Reconstruction policies.