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TBA

By the end of this unit students need to be able to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of:

Reconstruction: 1865 to 1877

USII.3 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the effects of Reconstruction on American life by

a) analyzing the impact of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States;

b) describing the impact of Reconstruction policies on the South and North;

c) describing the legacies of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, and Frederick Douglass.

Reshaping the Nation and the Emergence of Modern America: 1877 to the Early 1900s

c) describing racial segregation, the rise of “Jim Crow,” and other constraints faced by African Americans and other groups in the post-Reconstruction South;