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Reconstruction Think-Tac-Toe White Level
Directions:Choose three activities to complete that make a line going vertically, horizontally or diagonally. Each activity must use evidence found from research to support your work. You must use vocabulary words in each activity.
Write a 1-page response comparing and contrasting different plans for reconstruction. / Create a political cartoon that shows a particular perspective, regarding the Freedman’s bureau, sharecropping, or tenant farming. / Based on the impact that the 13th, 14th and 15thamendments had on the African Americans, which one do you think is the most important and why?Create a timeline of at least 10 events during the reconstruction era that explains how the United States became a united nation. / Predict what might have happened if the South had won the Civil War and the need for Reconstruction was reversed where the North would have needed to be rebuilt by the Confederate States of America. / Pretend that you are
a reporter and prepare a newscast about one of the following: the Assassination of President Lincoln and the impact on the South, the impact of the Ku Klux Klan on the 15th Amendment, or the naming of Atlanta as the new capital of Georgia.
Read the information on Tenant Farming and Sharecropping. Then Create a Venn diagram comparing/contrasting comparing the two. Beneath your Venn diagram write a brief description stating if you think they did or did not contribute to farmers continuing in a “cycle of poverty” for both poor blacks and whites. Be sure to give reasons for you answer. / Come up with a plan to readmit states into the nation. What should each state have to do and how will your plan benefit the country? / Pretend that you are a traveler from Europe, write a one-page journal entry that describes your observations and opinions of the reconstruction period as you travel through the South. Include the terms carpetbaggers and scalawags.
Reconstruction Think-Tac-Toe Blue Level
Directions: Choose three activities to complete that make a line going vertically, horizontally or diagonally. Each activity must use evidence found from research to support your work. You must use vocabulary words in each activity.
Write a 1-2 page paper comparing and contrasting different plans for reconstruction. / Create a political cartoon that shows a particular perspective, regarding the Freedman’s bureau, sharecropping, or tenant farming. / Design an illustration that compares and contrasts the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments.Write a short story about a boy or girl in Georgia experiencing Reconstruction. Be sure to use these terms: Freedman’s Bureau, sharecropping, 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and the Ku Klux Klan. Underline these terms in your short story. / Predict what might have happened if the South had won the Civil War and the need for Reconstruction was reversed where the North would have needed to be rebuilt by the Confederate States of America. / Read and Compare the two different perspectives on the riot at Camilla in September 1868. 1st perspective to summarize: the newspaper clipping from Albany Semi Weekly News.
2nd perspective to summarize: Letter to Colonel John Randolph of the Freedman’s Bureau.
After you summarize then answer the following: 1. Why are the two accounts different? 2. Why did O.H. Howard feel so disheartened? 3. What do you think happened in the days and weeks that followed after the riot?
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Complete the Sharecropping Game. / Come up with a plan to readmit states into the nation. What should each state have to do and how will your plan benefit the country? / Read and study the political cartoons on Reconstruction. Answer the questions at the bottom.
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