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The Reconstruction Amendments: 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Explain the constitutional expansion of liberty, citizenship, due process, equal protection, and voting rights in the post-Civil War era.
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Reconstruction and the Post-War South
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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.8.34Iowa Social Studies Standards · All agesCompare the different positions concerning the reconstruction of Southern society and the nation.
SS.8.35Iowa Social Studies Standards · All agesDescribe 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.