1. Reconstruction

2. Standards
SS5H2 The student will analyze the effects of Reconstruction on American life.
a. Describe the purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
b. Explain the work of the Freedmen’s Bureau.
c. Explain how slavery was replaced by sharecropping and include a discussion of Jim Crow laws and customs.

3. Department set up to assist freed slaves find jobs, education, etc
Vocabulary
Reconstruction
Freedman's Bureau
Sharecropping
Time period when North & South came back together as a Union ( )
Department set up to assist freed slaves find jobs, education, etc
Landowners allow former slaves to use land in return for a share of the crops produced.

4. Explain the purpose and meaning of each amendment
13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments
Cheat sheet
Explain the purpose and meaning of each amendment

6. "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Abraham Lincoln