American History I: The Founding Principles Curriculum Map 2015-2016
Unit 7: Reconstruction 1865-1877 (5 days)Key Concepts: Culture, Conflict, Power, Economic Systems
Students will Understand
· Unresolved political and economic conflicts can cause war.
· The national government may increase its scope of power during war.
· Both strong leadership and weak leadership can contribute to changes in political institutions.
· Both strong leadership and weak leadership can contribute to changes in political institutions.
· Political and cultural change cannot be forced solely by the national government. / Students will Know (Critical Content)
· Impact of the Emancipation Proclamation domestically and foreign.
· The political, economic, and social impacts of the Civil war
· The differences between Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction Plans
· How the power struggles between President Andrew Johnson and Congress led to his impeachment and the Radical Republican control of Reconstruction
· How sharecropping created an economic trap for blacks in the South
· How white southerners reclaimed their power in the South
· How Reconstruction ended.
Essential Questions
· What did a federal union of states mean politically and socially before and after the Civil War?
· How are civil liberties challenged during times of conflict and change?
· How have changes during Reconstruction made a lasting impact on America?
· To what extent did the Civil War and Reconstruction positively impact the lives of former slaves, women, and landless tenants in the US?
· To what extent did the federal government wield its power over the states during and after the Civil War?
· Which changes of the Reconstruction era were short-lived and which have had a lasting impact?
· To what extent did Reconstruction establish the supremacy of the national government
Priority Standards
H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, H7, H8 / Learning Outcomes (DO) / Materials/Resources / Critical Content & Vocabulary by Strand
Clarifying Objectives
AH.1.H.2.1 Analyze key political, economic, and social turning points from colonization through Reconstruction in terms of causes and effects.
AH1.H.2.2 Evaluate key turning points from colonization through Reconstruction in terms of their lasting impact.
AH1.H.3.2 Explain how environmental, cultural, and economic factors influenced the patterns of migration and settlement within the U.S. before the Civil War.
USH.1.H.3.3 Explain the roles of various racial and ethnic groups in settlement and expansion through Reconstruction and the consequences for those groups.
AH1.H.3.4 Analyze voluntary and involuntary immigration trends through Reconstruction in terms of causes, regions, of origin and destination, cultural contributions, and public and governmental response.
AH1.H.4.1 Analyze the political issues and conflicts that impacted the U.S. through Reconstruction and the compromises that resulted.
AH1.H.4.2 Analyze the economic issues and conflicts that impacted the United States through Reconstruction and the compromises that resulted.
AH1.H.4.3 Analyze the social and religious conflicts, movements, and reforms that affected the U.S. from colonization through Reconstruction in terms of participants, strategies, opposition, and results.
AH.1.H.4.4 Analyze the cultural conflicts that impacted the U.S. through Reconstruction and the compromises that resulted.
AH.1.H.5.1 Summarize how the philosophical, ideological, and religious views on freedom and equality contributed to the development of American political economic systems through Reconstruction.
AH1. H.5.2 Explain how judicial, legislative, and executive actions have affected the distribution of power between levels of government from colonization through Reconstruction.
AH1.H.6.1 Explain how national economic and political interests helped set the direction of U.S. foreign policy from independence through Reconstruction.
AH1.H.6.2 Explain the reasons for involvement in wars prior to Reconstruction and the influence each involvement had on international affairs.
AH1.H.7.1 Explain the impact of wars on American politics through Reconstruction.
AH1.H.7.2 Explain the impact of wars on the American economy through Reconstruction.
AH1. H.7.3 Explain the impact of wars on American society and culture through Reconstruction.
AH1.H.8.1 Analyze the relationship between innovation, economic development, progress, and various perceptions of the ‘American Dream” through Reconstruction.
AH1.H.8.2 Explain how opportunity and mobility impacted various groups within American society through Reconstruction.
AH1.H.8.3 Evaluate the extent to which a variety of groups and individuals have had opportunity to attain their perception of the ‘American Dream” through Reconstruction.
AH1.H.8.4 Analyze multiple perceptions of the American Dream in times of prosperity and crisis through Reconstruction. / · I will compare and contrast the military strengths/strategies of both sides in the Civil War.
· I will assess the impact of the Civil War in impacting the economies of the north, west, and south.
· I will compare and contrast the extent to which civil liberties were impacted by the Civil War.
· I will assess the political turning points of the Civil War. How did Lincoln’s actions affect the outcome of the war?
· I will assess the changes that took places in southern communities as a result of
interactions with Union troops.
· I will assess the military turning points of the Civil War. Which battles were the most decisive?
· I will judge the changes that took place in the relationship between the federal government and the states as a result of the Civil War.
· I will analyze Lincoln’s phrase: “a new birth of freedom” in assessing what it meant to different groups in the U.S.
· I will analyze how, why, and to what extent Lincoln’s leadership secured the authority of the national government and the supremacy of the executive branch.
· I will evaluate the degree to which Reconstruction cemented the power of the federal government over the states.
· I will analyze how conflicts between the Executive and Legislative branches threatened to undermine the balance of power in the federal government.
· I will analyze the political, economic, and social impacts of Reconstruction on the nation. Which changes were permanent?
· I will analyze the extent to which newly freed African-Americans benefited both culturally and politically during Reconstruction.
· I will compare and contrast the arguments of and changes for “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags” in the South.
· I will analyze how the scandals of the Grant Administration influenced the politics of Reconstruction.
· I will explain how and why tenant farming and sharecropping prevailed in the South after the Civil War.
· I will examine how Reconstruction came to an end, and compare and contrast its impacts on various groups in the U.S. Did anyone benefit as a result?
· I will determine the factors that affected the course of the
Civil War and contributed to Union victory by…:
Listing the advantages and disadvantages for the North and the South.
Explaining how the Civil War impacted all Americans.
Identifying factors that affected the course of the war and contributed to Union victory.
Identifying the contributions of key individuals in the Civil War.
Listing the results of the Civil War.
I will describe the Reconstruction policies and their effects on the former Confederacy to reunite the United States by…:
Identifying the various Reconstruction plans and how Southern life changed.
Examining the effects of Lincoln’s assassination had on the nation.
Identifying what some Southerners did to deprive freed people of their rights and how
Congress responded.
Citing the changes and adjustments of Southern society during the post slavery era.
· I will identify key Northern and Southern Civil War personalities.
· I will analyze the impact of the division between forces regarding resources, population distribution, and transportation.
· I will describe non-military events and life during the Civil War.
· I will analyze the impact of the Homestead Act, the Morrill Act, Northern draft riots, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Gettysburg Address.
· I will describe how the role of women changed during the Civil War and was foundational to modern equal rights movements.
· I will trace post-Civil War economic changes, both regionally and racially.
· I will describe the social restructuring of the South.
· I will summarize the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
· I will explain the impact of the Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, Plessey vs. Ferguson, etc on the social and political structure of the New South after Reconstruction. / Primary Source analysis and video on plans for Reconstruction.
http://www.hippocampus.org/History%20%26%20Government;jsessionid=99C6C70C48F9792AA1A94D9192823C79
Common Core activity on the Radical Republican agenda.
http://sheg.stanford.edu/upload/Lessons/Unit%205_Civil%20War%20and%20Reconstruction/Radical%20Reconstruction%20Lesson%20Plan1.pdf
Common Core activity on Reconstruction.
SAS Curriculum Pathways
Quick link # 402
Primary Source Analysis on the impeachment of Andrew Johnson
http://www.hippocampus.org/History%20%26%20Government;jsessionid=99C6C70C48F9792AA1A94D9192823C79
Common Core activity on Sharecropping
http://sheg.stanford.edu/upload/Lessons/Unit%205_Civil%20War%20and%20Reconstruction/Sharecropping%20Lesson%20Plan.pdf
Common Core activity on Reconstruction’s effects on African-Americans
http://sheg.stanford.edu/upload/Lessons/Unit%205_Civil%20War%20and%20Reconstruction/Reconstruction%20FINAL%20SAC%20Lesson%20Plan.pdf
Primary Source Analysis on the changing perceptions of African-Americans during Reconstruction
http://sheg.stanford.edu/upload/Lessons/Unit%205_Civil%20War%20and%20Reconstruction/Nast%20Cartoons%20Lesson%20Plan1.pdf
Chart and video on comparisons between the Election of 1876 and the Election of 2000.
http://www.hippocampus.org/History%20%26%20Government;jsessionid=99C6C70C48F9792AA1A94D9192823C79
Primary Source Analysis on the effects of Reconstruction for African-Americans.
http://www.hippocampus.org/History%20%26%20Government;jsessionid=99C6C70C48F9792AA1A94D9192823C79
The Civil War: Reconstruction
https://goo.gl/ySUij6
Reconstruction Era Sharecropping
https://goo.gl/RDvVQ2
Emancipation Proclamation
https://goo.gl/1pLm2C / History
· Gettysburg Address
· Sherman’s March
· Robert E. Lee
· Thomas Jackson
· Ulysses S. Grant
· John Wilkes Booth
· States’ Rights
· Rise of segregation
· Impeachment of Johnson
· Radical Republicans
· KKK
Civics and Government
· Reconstruction Plans
· Tenure of Office Act
· Impeachment
· 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
· Military Reconstruction Act
· Civil Rights Act of 1866
· Poll Taxes
· Literacy Tests
· Grandfather Clause
· Election of 1876
· Compromise of 1877
· Jim Crow Laws
· Black codes
· Election of 1876
· Compromise of 1877
· Credit Moblier
· Freedmen’s Bureau
· Radical Republicans
· Presidential Reconstruction
· Congressional Reconstruction
Economics
· Economic advantages of the North
· Sharecropping
· Tenant Farming
· Whiskey Ring
· “New South”
· exodusters
Geography
· Fort Sumter
· Vicksburg
· Gettysburg
· Appomattox Court House
· Antietam
· Anaconda Plan
· Blockade
· Strengths/
Weaknesses of both sides
· 1st Battle of Bull Run
Culture
· Uncle Tom’s Cabin
· Social impact of war
· Social and Economic impact
· Freedmen’s Bureau
· Scalawags
· Carpetbaggers
· Ku Klux Klan
· Solid South
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