Seeking New Opportunities: The Exodusters Move West

Reconstruction and the Struggle for Civil Rights

4th Grade·Social Studies·US-WV-SS

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Describe how African American migrants known as Exodusters moved to Kansas and the West to escape Southern oppression.

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Reconstruction and the Struggle for Civil Rights

4th Grade · Social Studies · US-WV-SS

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Analyze the political, social, and economic rebuilding of the United States after the Civil War, focusing on the Reconstruction Amendments and African American experiences.

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SS.5.8West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All ages

Critique the economic reasons for immigration and migration throughout the United States during specific times in history and relate the information to the present (e.g., Great Migration, Ellis Island, etc.).

SS.5.21West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All ages

Examine the economic, political and social developments during Reconstruction. • Explain the effects of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and the goals of Reconstruction. • Characterize the effects of Reconstruction on African Americans (e.g., rights and restrictions, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth Amendments, rise of discriminatory laws and groups (Klu Klux Klan), motivations to relocate, and the actions of the Freedmen’s Bureau, etc.).