Courtesy of http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/
The Power of the Reconstruction Era shows how far the Freedmen came within 10-years and is the seventh activity in the ECG Black History Month (BHM) series. Starting with:
Activity #1: The Original People
Activity #2: What Makes Black People Black
Activity #3: The Lebombo & Ishango Bones
Activity #4: Pre-Colonial Africa
Activity #5: The African Diaspora
Activity #6: Slavery in the Americas
This 20-Activity series provides supplemental learning for each school day of the month of February 2023. The first activity was FREE but each subsequent activity will be offered at a discount during BHM. Activities will be uploaded throughout the month of February. Come back each day for the latest activity.
The activities contain a vocabulary section to ensure students are comprehending the material, a reading section which includes much of the vocabulary and introduces students to the topic, a STEM section which requires students to scientifically think about the material and may include vocabulary, and a writing section which requires students to reflect on the material or answer the prompt using evidence or by making inferences.
The Brief Student Reading:
Reconstruction (1867-1877) was a period in American history that followed the American Civil War (1861-1865).
On December 24th, 1865, as a response to the Union victory in the war that outlawed slavery, the southern White democrats formed the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), an American terrorist organization, to keep Black people as a subservient class and to terrorize those Freedman who dared to achieve success.
The states in the south became under the control of the federal government to allow the Freedmen an opportunity to establish themselves as free persons. The Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th) were passed and the KKK used terrorism to keep the Freedmen from voting.
Fortunately, several Black men were elected to Congress and a couple to the Senate within the 10 years of Reconstruction. Unfortunately, a compromise ended reconstruction and the Black Codes or Jim Crow became law. These codes were horrible laws that controlled the Freedmen.
Before they were ousted, the Freedman established the first public school system in the south and that is the only institution they established that the White democrats did not deconstruct when they regained power.
End of Brief Student Reading!
Vocabulary:
amendments
Black Codes
deconstruct
Jim Crow
ousted
Reconstruction
Reconstruction Amendments
subservient
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