Reconstruction Unit: 5 Lessons, 1865-1877, Grades 6-8

Five days that take students through Reconstruction, 1865 to 1877. They start with the 13th Amendment and what freedom meant to freedpeople, study the Freedmen's Bureau through real National Archives records, work through the 14th and 15th Amendments word for word, meet Black leaders in Congress, and finish by weighing how Black Codes, backlash and the Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction.

What's inside

• 66 slides in 5 PowerPoint decks, with speaker notes on every slide
• 5 lesson plans, 2 pages each
• 5 student readings, 2 pages each
• 2 "In the Constitution's Words" pages (Days 1 and 3), 1 page each, and 1 primary-source page of National Archives records (Day 2), 1 page
• 5 student worksheets, 2 pages each
• 5 answer keys, 1 page each
• 5 Print-all PDFs, 8, 8, 8, 7 and 7 pages
• 56 files in total

Answer key included

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