Georgia SS8H6

SS8H6 is a Georgia social studies standard. These are the elements under it.

• SS8H6.a

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

• SS8H6.b

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

• SS8H6.c

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

• SS8H6.d

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

• SS8H6.e

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

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how new laws, federal programs, labor systems, and political conflict changed life in Georgia after the Civil War. They connect each change to effects on freedom, voting, work, and power.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can explain the effects and limits of the Reconstruction amendments and the Freedmen’s Bureau in Georgia. They can distinguish sharecropping from tenant farming and explain the removal of Black state legislators.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students often assume legal freedom created immediate political and economic equality. They may confuse sharecropping with tenant farming or think Black legislators were removed because voters rejected them.

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How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Choose one amendment, the Freedmen’s Bureau, or sharecropping. In three sentences, explain its effect in Georgia and one limit, using a named example.

1. 01

   Give pairs event cards for amendments, the Freedmen’s Bureau, Black legislators, and sharecropping, then build a cause-and-effect timeline.

2. 02

   Write: Which Reconstruction change brought the most freedom to formerly enslaved Georgians, and what evidence shows its limits?

3. 03

   Play a matching game that links Reconstruction policies and events to political, economic, or social effects in Georgia.

4. 04

   Use a Georgia historical marker map to find a nearby Reconstruction site and explain whose experience the marker highlights or leaves out.

• SS4H6

  Analyze the effects of Reconstruction on American life.

• SS8H2

  Analyze the colonial period of Georgia's history.

• SS8H5

  Analyze the impact of the Civil War on Georgia.