Content Specification - SS.8.1.a.1:
Students will compare and contrast the differences between Reconstruction under Lincoln’s plan, Johnson’s plan, and congressional (Radical) Reconstruction.

Content Specification - SS.8.1.b.1:
Students will examine the Reconstruction amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th) in terms of the rights and protections provided to African Americans.

Content Specification - SS.8.1.b.2:
Students will examine the Freedmen’s Bureau’s purpose, successes, and the extent of its success.

Content Specification - SS.8.1.b.3:
Students will examine the impacts of the sharecropping system on African Americans.

Content Specification - SS.8.1.b.4:
Students will examine the reasons for the migration of African Americans to the North.

Content Specification - SS.8.1.b.5:
Students will examine the rise of African Americans in government.

Content Specification - SS.8.1.c.1:
Students will explore methods used by Southern state governments to impact the lives of African Americans, including the passage of Black Codes, poll taxes, and Jim Crow laws.

Content Specification - SS.8.1.c.2:
Students will explore the response of some Southerners to the increased rights of African Americans noting the development of organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan and White Leagues.

Content Specification - SS.8.1.c.3:
Students will examine the ways in which the federal government failed to follow up on its promises to freed African Americans.

Content Specification - SS.8.1.c.4:
Students will examine the effects of the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling.