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Reconstruction Reading Guide
Use this reading guide to help you understand important readings about the Reconstruction. You will be using your
analyzing (examining in detail), evaluating (determining significance), & summarizing (using your own words to restate
the main ideas) skills. Follow the steps below for each reading:
Step 0: Be ready to try your 100% best. This is the only way you can help yourself individually or in discussions.
Step 1: Pre-read. Look at all bold/underlined words, quotes, pictures, captions, maps, graphs, & inserts.
Step 2: Complete the reading. (1st reading=learning)
Step 3: Answer the questions that help you understand the importance of the reading’s main focus from memory.
Step 4: Reread the pages listed if you can’t remember an answer. (2nd/3rd/4th reading=understanding)
Step 5: Write the paragraph where you found your answer.
Step 6: Create a hashtag that capture the main idea of each reading.
Reading
Main
Idea
By Monday, January 11
Pages 520-523 The Legacy of the War
EXCEPT “Lincoln’s Assassination”
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The Civil War changed the US
for better & worse.
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1. Why did the Union choose Robert E. Lee’s plantation for its cemetery?
Quote or 2. How did the Union suffer more casualties but still win the Civil War?
Visual
Pre-read 3. Why was Booker T. Washington’s mom crying?
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4. Which effects were positive for the US?
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5. What did/does the 13 Amendment do?
6. How did people view the US after the Civil War?
7. How did the Civil War affect the South’s economy?
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HW on Wednesday, January 13
Change was difficult
during Reconstruction
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8. Why did Radical Republicans believe “the whole fabric of southern society must be
changed”?
9. What about Andrew Johnson’s personality or home made Reconstruction difficult?
11. According to South Carolina’s governor who did Southern states care about?
Least
12. What was the purpose of black codes?
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Pages 533-536 Rebuilding the Union
EXCEPT “New Southern Governments”
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10. What did Lincoln promise in his Second Inaugural Address?
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HW on Wednesday, January 13
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13. What did Radical Republicans want?
14. How did the 14th Amendment try to let African Americans vote?
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Reading
HW on Thursday, January 14
Main
Idea
New governments brought new
opportunities for freedmen
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Pages 533-536 Rebuilding the Union
EXCEPT “New Southern Governments”
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Pages 536, 540, 541
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16. Why did Mill & Jule “give three times three cheers” on the boat?
17. Which courses at Howard University were most important during Reconstruction?
18. Who were scalawags?
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19. Why did scalawags support Radical Reconstruction?
20. Why did “colored folks start on the move” during Reconstruction?
21. Why were freedmen’s schools so important in the South?
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Reading
BY Tuesday, January 19
Main
Idea
Freedmen had limited (bad)
job opportunities
& finished my questions at
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25. How was Mr. Fortune “swindled & kept forever in debt”?
26. What did Republicans believe would help African Americans more than land?
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27. How was the contract system better than slavery?
28. How was the contract system bad for freedmen?
29. Why did merchants cheat sharecroppers?
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EXCEPT “The Ku Klux Klan”
Quote or 23. Why was there a labor shortage in the South after the Civil War?
Visual
Pre-read 24. How did sharecroppers get tied to one plantation?
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main idea is
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22. What is the best reason Bayley Wyat gives for freedmen owning land in the South?
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HW on Tuesday January 26
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Reconstruction and the
changes it made ended
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suddenly.
30. How did white Southerners regain control in 1877?
Pages 545-549 “End of Reconstruction”
Cause or
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idea
31. Why were there so few African American representatives in Congress after Reconstruction?
Quote or 32. What “assassin” did Joseph Rainey say waited at home for him & other black congressmen?
Visual
Pre-read 33. What is holding down President Grant?
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34. What will happen if the soldier is not in the picture?
35. Why did Congress have to pass multiple laws trying to protect the same rights?
36. Give a pro and a con to the 15th Amendment.
Pro Con 37. How did President Grant’s advisors affect Republicans and Reconstruction?
Guiding
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38. How did Americans feel about Reconstruction after the Panic of 1873 & depression?
39. Which 1876 Supreme Court decision hurt Reconstruction worse? Why?
40. Why does the text conclude “Reconstruction changed society, putting African
Americans on the path toward full equality”?
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Reading
Main
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By Wednesday, January 27
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Reconstruction’s failures
affected America until the
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41. What is racial discrimination?
Cause or
effect of
main
idea
44. Why were grandfather clauses created?
45. How are discrimination & segregation different?
46. Why did Justice Brown say law made people feel inferior?
47. How did Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka overturn Plessy v. Ferguson?
48. According to the text, what had state & local governments created from the Plessy
decision?
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43. What made whites believe they were superior to blacks?
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Pre-read 42. Why did Mama & Papa hush their daughters on the trolley?
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