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Reconstruction and Its Lasting Legacy in Modern America

5th Grade · Social Studies · US-UT-SS

11 lessons

Goal

Examine the competing goals and outcomes of Reconstruction and evaluate how its constitutional, social, and political struggles continue to shape contemporary American life.

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  5. Economic Realities: Sharecropping, Debt Peonage, and LandNot started yet
  6. Resistance and the Rise of Jim Crow and Black CodesNot started yet
  7. The Compromise of 1877 and Why Reconstruction EndedNot started yet
  8. How Historians View Reconstruction: Changing PerspectivesNot started yet
  9. Civil War and Reconstruction Legacies in Modern Civil RightsNot started yet
  10. Current Events and the Reconstruction Amendments: Equal Protection TodayNot started yet
  11. Debates Over Monuments, Memory, and the Civil War Era TodayNot started yet
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us-utU.S. I Standard 7.3Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Students will compare historians’ interpretations of the competing goals of Reconstruction and why many of those goals were left unrealized.