RECONSTRUCTION WEBQUEST (DO NOT WRITE ON)
ACTIVITY #1: Reconstruction Timeline
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=8&smtID=4
A) Using the timeline, fill in the chart below.
DATE
ACT
EFFECT
13th Amendment
1866
Civil Rights Act
Reconstruction Act
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
1875
Civil Rights Act
B) How did white southerners respond to the new freedoms won by African Americans? What specific actions did they
take to limit freed blacks’ freedoms?
C) What do you think began to happen once the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court?
Activity #2: Sharecropping
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3100
A) Why does the author consider sharecropping to have been “a new system of economic exploitation”?
B) In what ways was sharecropping better for African Americans than slavery?
Activity #3: The End of Reconstruction
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3108
A)According to the article’s author, what events led to the end of Reconstruction?
Activity #4: The Significance of Reconstruction
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3110
A) According the article “The Significance of Reconstruction,” what changed and what stayed the same for African
Americans and the South as a whole?
B) Why does the article’s author consider Reconstruction to be a failure?
Activity #5: Quiz on Reconstruction
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=13&psid=3760
Test yourself, then check your answers.
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