This Reconstruction Era High School Lesson is a great way for students to investigate whether the Reconstruction established racial equality. Students will analyze six included primary source documents to deepen their understanding of this pivotal period in history.

After analyzing the documents, students will craft a written response answering the lesson’s focus question: To what extent did Reconstruction establish racial equality?

You’ll love this resource because it includes complete lesson plan procedures, making it easy to implement right away!

Here's what you'll get

• Complete lesson plan procedures
• Excerpts to 6 primary source documents
• Ready-to-use student handouts and graphic organizers
• Cognitive modeling sample

Below is a list of excerpts from primary source texts that students will analyze:

1. Source 1: The Reconstruction Amendments (1865, 1868, 1870)
2. Source 2: President Rutherford B Hayes, Removes the Remaining Troops (1877)
3. Source 3: Bryan Grymes, A Sharecropping Contract (1882)
4. Source 4: Alfred Richardson, Confronts the Ku Klux Klan in Reconstruction Era Georgia (1871)
5. Source 5: Albion Tourgee, Letter on Ku Klux Klan Activities (1870)
6. Source 6: Sidney Andrews quoted in Joint Report on Reconstruction (1866)

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