Session Date
Lesson Topic
African American History 13 and 14
Lesson Outline
• Discuss the ultimate results or consequences of Reconstruction. Was it a failure or success? Look at the issue from the point of view of abolitionists, blacks, the South, and the North. What more do you think should have been done?
• Discuss how blacks attempted to work within the political system during Reconstruction to effect change. How were they limited?
• Describe the origins of the KKK. How is the KKK of the Reconstruction period similar to, or different from, the KKK of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries? From the KKK of the 1920s? How did whites justify the existence of such terrorism? How have views of terrorism changed?
• Discuss the differences between looking at only legal evidence to note changes – for example, seeing the passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, the Enforcement Acts, and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 – versus incorporating social evidence for changes, such as black resistance and civil rights efforts, the development of the KKK, and the violence of redemption. How would the stories differ if only legal evidence or only social evidence were considered? What does this tell us about historians’ jobs? Did Reconstruction lead to change?
• Describe the role of blacks in the Farmer’s Alliances and the Populist Party.
• Describe the steps the South took to limit and turn back black gains after Reconstruction.
• Explain how violence played a role in the South as a way of limiting black power and civil rights.
• Describe how blacks responded to conditions in the South.
• Describe some of the discriminatory characteristics of black life in the “New South.”
• Discuss how blacks attempted to work within the political system during Reconstruction to effect change. How were they limited?
• Describe the origins of the KKK. How is the KKK of the Reconstruction period similar to, or different from, the KKK of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries? From the KKK of the 1920s? How did whites justify the existence of such terrorism? How have views of terrorism changed?
• Discuss the differences between looking at only legal evidence to note changes – for example, seeing the passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, the Enforcement Acts, and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 – versus incorporating social evidence for changes, such as black resistance and civil rights efforts, the development of the KKK, and the violence of redemption. How would the stories differ if only legal evidence or only social evidence were considered? What does this tell us about historians’ jobs? Did Reconstruction lead to change?
• Describe the role of blacks in the Farmer’s Alliances and the Populist Party.
• Describe the steps the South took to limit and turn back black gains after Reconstruction.
• Explain how violence played a role in the South as a way of limiting black power and civil rights.
• Describe how blacks responded to conditions in the South.
• Describe some of the discriminatory characteristics of black life in the “New South.”
Assignment
Lecture and quiz on chpater 13 and 14.
Session Minutes
180
Minutes Student Attended
180
Lesson Comments
Work on research paper and DB blogs.
• Discuss the ultimate results or consequences of Reconstruction. Was it a failure or success? Look at the issue from the point of view of abolitionists, blacks, the South, and the North. What more do you think should have been done?
• Discuss how blacks attempted to work within the political system during Reconstruction to effect change. How were they limited?
• Describe the origins of the KKK. How is the KKK of the Reconstruction period similar to, or different from, the KKK of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries? From the KKK of the 1920s? How did whites justify the existence of such terrorism? How have views of terrorism changed?
• Discuss the differences between looking at only legal evidence to note changes – for example, seeing the passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, the Enforcement Acts, and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 – versus incorporating social evidence for changes, such as black resistance and civil rights efforts, the development of the KKK, and the violence of redemption. How would the stories differ if only legal evidence or only social evidence were considered? What does this tell us about historians’ jobs? Did Reconstruction lead to change?
• Describe the role of blacks in the Farmer’s Alliances and the Populist Party.
• Describe the steps the South took to limit and turn back black gains after Reconstruction.
• Explain how violence played a role in the South as a way of limiting black power and civil rights.
• Describe how blacks responded to conditions in the South.
• Describe some of the discriminatory characteristics of black life in the “New South.”
• Discuss the ultimate results or consequences of Reconstruction. Was it a failure or success? Look at the issue from the point of view of abolitionists, blacks, the South, and the North. What more do you think should have been done?
• Discuss how blacks attempted to work within the political system during Reconstruction to effect change. How were they limited?
• Describe the origins of the KKK. How is the KKK of the Reconstruction period similar to, or different from, the KKK of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries? From the KKK of the 1920s? How did whites justify the existence of such terrorism? How have views of terrorism changed?
• Discuss the differences between looking at only legal evidence to note changes – for example, seeing the passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, the Enforcement Acts, and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 – versus incorporating social evidence for changes, such as black resistance and civil rights efforts, the development of the KKK, and the violence of redemption. How would the stories differ if only legal evidence or only social evidence were considered? What does this tell us about historians’ jobs? Did Reconstruction lead to change?
• Describe the role of blacks in the Farmer’s Alliances and the Populist Party.
• Describe the steps the South took to limit and turn back black gains after Reconstruction.
• Explain how violence played a role in the South as a way of limiting black power and civil rights.
• Describe how blacks responded to conditions in the South.
• Describe some of the discriminatory characteristics of black life in the “New South.”
Session Hours
3.00
Hours Attended
3.00
Entry Status
Review Status
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Subject
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