Teacher's Notes

Theme:
After the Civil War, the policies of the Reconstruction Era attempted ways to bring the defeated South back into the Union.

Sub-theme:
Some Republicans suggested that the slaves receive land that had been held by white Southerners, in order to utterly reform the society of the South.

Concepts:

• Reconstruction
• confiscation
• radical Republicans
• civil rights amendments
• freedmen
• sharecroppers

Performance objectives -- this lesson focuses on developing skills at:

• Comparing opposing views on the issue of land distribution
• Researching the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
• Interviewing, through role-playing, a member of Congress
• Analyzing a folk song

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