Alabama Social Studies SS24.US1.13a
The Standard
- SS24.US1.13
- Evaluate how Reconstruction affected the economic, political, and social landscape of the South.
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.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify groups that pushed for change or fought it during Reconstruction. They explain what each group did and how those actions affected work, voting, or daily life.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how freedpeople built schools and sought voting rights, while the Ku Klux Klan used violence to block those gains. They can explain how sharecropping limited economic freedom.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume emancipation gave formerly enslaved people land and equal protection right away. They may think voting rights ended voter intimidation or that all Southern whites acted alike.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, name one group seeking change and one resisting it. For each, give a specific action and explain its effect on work, voting, or daily life.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs group cards and action cards, including 'opened schools,' 'negotiated labor contracts,' and 'intimidated voters'; have them match each action to a group.
Ask, 'Did legal voting rights guarantee a safe vote in 1870?' Have students support an answer with the Fifteenth Amendment and an intimidation account.
Read aloud actions such as 'passed voting protections' and 'forced workers into unfair contracts'; students write the group responsible on mini whiteboards.
Compare a current voter registration form with an 1870 voting notice and intimidation account; students identify the difference between legal rights and ballot access.
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