Reconstruction: A Second Founding: Social Studies Unit 8, Grade 8 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Reconstruction: A Second Founding is Unit 8 of United States History to Reconstruction, with Civics (Grade 8), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 64 pages.

• Presidential vs. Congressional Reconstruction plans (Ten Percent Plan, Wade-Davis Bill)
• The conflict between presidential and congressional authority over Reconstruction
• The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
• The conflict between state Black Codes and the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause
• The criteria distinguishing Black Codes from early Jim Crow measures
• The Freedmen’s Bureau’s functions and Black political participation during Reconstruction
• The causal link between the Compromise of 1877 and the collapse of Reconstruction enforcement
• The recurring pattern of deferred-cost compromise across U.S. history to 1877
• The overall trajectory and outcome of Reconstruction (1865-1877)
• The Reconstruction Amendments’ names, numbers, and dates

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.