Reconstruction Lesson: The 14th & 15th Amendments, Grades 6-8

A team writes a new rule that every player gets a fair turn. Who should make sure it is kept? That question opens a lesson on why Congress wrote the 14th and 15th Amendments: a rule without a referee can be ignored.

What's inside

• 13 slides, with speaker notes on all 13
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Student reading, 2 pages, "Citizens and Voters"
• "In the Constitution's Words" page, 1 page: 14th Amendment Section 1 in three parts and 15th Amendment Section 1 (Documents A to D)
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page
• Print-all PDF, 8 pages

Answer key included

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