 | Instructor Resources |
Support student learning and save time with these password-protected materials. To request a password, please complete and submit the request form. After your request has been reviewed and authorized, you will receive a response from our Faculty Services team within 48 hours.
|
Some content requires software plugins. Visit our Plugin Help Center for help with downloading plugins.
|
Additional Class Topics
For Further Interest: Additional Class Topics
Chapter 22:
The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865 - 1877
- Discuss the new circumstances and experiences
of the ordinary freed African Americans. Consider such developments as the
westward-migrating Exodusters and the newly powerful black churches.
What obligation, if any, did the federal government have to African Americans
that it recently freed from slavery?
- Look at the Ku Klux Klan in relation to
its historical significance in the 1870s and its enduring presence as a symbol
of white racism and illegal violence.
- Focus on the character of Andrew Johnson,
and particularly his difficulty as a poor Southern white in
the White House during Republican Reconstruction. Perhaps contrast him with
his great enemy Thaddeus Stevens.
- Compare the enormous gap between the still
widely held popular image of Reconstruction and the more complicated historical
reality described in the text. The D. W. Griffith film Birth
of a Nation would be a good starting point, since it helped to fix
the general image of the period more than any other work.
- Why were women's rights ignored during
the period of Reconstruction? What does the failure to include sex in the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments suggest about the nation's commitment
to equality?
|
