Reconstruction Era

Student Tasks
Read your "text" online HERE 

Online Readings
Record your answers to the following activities on the
Common Answer Form. Be sure to answer in complete sentences.
Biography: Andrew Johnson
Primary Source Activity: Black Codes of Mississippi
Biography: Thaddeus Stevens
An Address on Reconstruction by Thaddeus Stevens
Primary Source Activity: Sharecropper Contract
Biography: Blanche K. Bruce
Primary Source Activity: Reconstruction and the Ku Klux Klan
Primary Source Activity: Plessy vs. Ferguson

NEWSELA
Choose TWO of the articles assigned to ELA/SS8 and complete the quizzes (4 pts. each). Your class code is written on the board in class.
-Time Machine (1865): The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Voter ID laws suppress Democrats and minorities, researchers find
- Voting Rights restored again for 13K felons in Virginia
- Primary Sources: Plessy v. Ferguson
- Issue Overview: Voting Rights

Complete the following activities and turn them in separately.
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Map Activity: The Reconstruction Acts
Primary Source Activity: Letter from a Former Slave

Read the following documents.
Complete a Document Analysis Worksheet for each document.
Primary Source Activity: When We Worked on Shares
Primary Source Activity: The First-Class Men of Our Town
Article: Jim Crow Laws

Alabama Voter Application form
Alabama Voter Essay
Illinois Voter Registration Application
Louisiana Literacy Test
Click HERE to take a sample Literacy Test for voting