Economic and Social Structures in the Post-Civil War South

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Analyze the rise of sharecropping, the crop-lien system, tenant farming, and their long-term economic effects on formerly enslaved people and poor whites.

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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.8.36Iowa Social Studies Standards · 7th Grade

Analyze and trace the economic, political, and cultural changes in the post-Civil War South, and evaluate their impact on different social groups.