Backlash and Resistance: Black Codes, the Ku Klux Klan, and Voter Suppression

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Analyze how Southern states and paramilitary groups utilized Black Codes, violence, poll taxes, and literacy tests to dismantle Black civil rights.

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Reconstruction and the Post-War South

7th Grade · Social Studies · US-IA-SS

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Examine the political battles, constitutional transformations, African American advancements, and white supremacist backlash during Reconstruction and its aftermath.

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SS.8.35Iowa Social Studies Standards · 7th Grade

Describe the new role of African Americans in local, state, and the federal government in the years after the Civil War and the national and regional resistance to this change.