1. SWBAT discuss how Reconstruction impacted the unity of the United States by analyzing key documents and completing the activity.
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2. Reconstruction
The process of rebuilding the South after the civil war and determing how to deal with the newly freed slaves.

4. 1a) How does document 1 define citizenship?

5. Jim Crow Laws
Using this image, predict what impact you think Jim Crow laws had on American society and/or African Americans.

6. Jim Crow Laws
 laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
For example: Alabama: No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed.
Nebraska:
Marriages are void when one party is a white person and the other is possessed of one-eighth or more negro, Japanese, or Chinese blood.

7. Literacy Tests and Poll Taxes
a test that determines the qualification of a voter based on his/her his ability to read and write.
- this test was a way to deny the newly freed slaves their rights provided by the 15th amendment.

8. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".

10. Assignment