Reconstruction
Grade 5•45 minutes•VS.8c
Learning Objective
I can explain how Reconstruction affected the lives of African Americans in the South.
Practice Questions
This lesson includes 7 practice questions to reinforce learning.
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1. What was the Freedmen's Bureau, and how did it attempt to help formerly enslaved people in Virginia after the Civil War?
2. Describe the system of sharecropping. How did it affect the economic opportunities available to African Americans in Virginia during Reconstruction?
3. How did the 14th and 15th Amendments aim to improve the lives of African Americans?
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