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The Reconstruction Era and The Fragility of Democracy
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The Reconstruction Era and The Fragility of Democracy

Collector: Ann V.
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Seven lessons examine the Reconstruction Era that followed the United States Civil War. The series of detailed lessons provide background information on the era, teaching strategies, videos, and primary source materials.

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african american history, american democracy, american history, black codes, causes of the civil war, civil rights, compare and contrast, democracy, frederick douglass, harriet tubman, identity, injustice, jim crow laws, justice, media, media analysis, media bias, mississippi history, primary sources, racism, reconstruction, segregation, slave culture, slavery, social justice, south carolina history, suffrage, the civil rights movement, the confederacy, the underground railroad, visual literacy, voting rights, andrew johnson, civic duty, image analysis, primary source analysis, primary source images, sharecropping, the emancipation proclamation, the voting rights act, w.e.b. du bois, the reconstruction era, cross-media analysis, the united states civil war, the fifteenth amendment, the fourteenth amendment, the suffrage movement, the ku klux klan, the thirteenth amendment, remote learning

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Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Common Core

RI.9-10.1 RI.9-10.6 RI.9-10.7 RI.9-10.9 RI.11-12.1 RI.11-12.6 RI.11-12.7 RI.11-12.9 RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.6 RH.9-10.8 RH.9-10.9 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.6 RH.11-12.8 RH.11-12.9

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