Reconstruction DBQ Stations: Black Codes, Sharecropping, Lost Cause, Jim Crow
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This U.S. History year-long course examines the major events and turning points of U.S. history from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Movement. The course leads students toward a clearer understanding of the patterns, processes, and people that have shaped U.S. history. During this year long UPrice $158.39Original Price $270.48Save $112.09
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Why do so many American students mistakenly believe the Civil War was about states rights? Why do so many Americans fly the Confederate flag as a symbol of southern pride when the Confederacy broke from the Union and started a Civil War? Were formerly enslaved African Americans really free after the Civil War? These are difficult questions that will be answered in this student centered Reconstruction stations activity. Teach the horrors of Reconstruction using primary source documents so students can understand why our society developed to look the way it does today—and how it might be positively transformed to be more egalitarian.
If you are a history educator looking to spread awareness about the truth of the Civil War and Reconstruction this lesson is for you. Most textbooks and school curriculum fails to teach the truth about Reconstruction. Too often the story of this struggle for an egalitarian interracial democracy is skipped or rushed through in classrooms across the country. The possibility of equality during this era was thwarted by violent white supremacist backlash. Today — in a moment where democracy in the United States is again facing civil strife and white supremacist terrorism is on the rise — every student should investigate the relevance of Reconstruction. “It’s time for a new Reconstruction story — a story that will help us better understand how we got here. A story where the central characters are the Black people who fought to liberate themselves, who gained political power despite every attempt at violent suppression.” —Kidada E. Williams
Teach the truth about Reconstruction! Teach history that matters! Help restore American democracy by building an inclusive and democratic social studies classroom. This is a Google Document for you to edit as you see fit.
Students Will Be Able To: Write a claim, counterclaim, evidence and reasoning using the readings from the class regarding answering the question: What were some of the challenges African Americans continued to endure after they were emancipated?
Reconstruction Stations Activity Cooperative Group Work
Directions: In groups students will roam the room reading the sources at the different stations to answer the guided reading questions.
Station 1. The Ku Klux Klan & The Black Codes
A. A Brief History of the Ku Klux Klan
B. A Ku Klux Klan threat, 1868 Primary Source
C. Black Codes
D. The Mississippi Black Codes (1865) Primary Source
Station 2. Sharecropping
A. Sharecropping
B. Sharecropping Contract: 1882 Primary Source
C. Sharecropping & Tenant Farming Textbook Excerpt
D. Cycle of Poverty Textbook Diagram
Station 3. The Myth of the Lost Cause
A. Give Me Liberty! and Voices of Freedom Excerpt by Eric Foner
B. Why Calling Enslaved 'Workers' Is More Than An Editing Error PBS Ed
C. Majority Of Southerners Now View The Confederate Flag As A Racist Symbol, Poll Finds
D. How I Learned About the “Cult of the Lost Cause” By The Smithsonian
Station 4. Disenfranchisement
A. Civil Rights in America: Racial Voting Rights by the National Park Service
B. The NAACP and the Challenge to Disenfranchisement by the National Park Service
C. The End of Reconstruction by the National Park Service
D. Klansmen Broke my Door Down an 1872 testimony (primary source)
Included:
- 16 readings
- 4 primary source documents
- guided reading questions
- Graphic organizers
- Vocabulary
- Writing activity for assessment (with and without accommodations)
- Learning progressions attached to standards
Heavily scaffolded! Great for ELL's and students with special needs.
Vocabulary Covered:
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Black Codes
Jim Crow
Segregation
poll tax:
literacy test:
grandfather clause:
disenfranchisement:
Plessy V. Ferguson
**Perfect to use with: Reconstruction Google Slides and Video Lecture Teach the horrors while celebrating those who resisted**
Standards:
California History and Social Studies Content Standards
Examine the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction and of the industrial revolution, including demographic shifts and the emergence in the late nineteenth century of the United States as a world power.
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