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8th Grade Reconstruction Worksheets

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Written by Adi Ackerman, Head Teacher

Reconstruction was the period after the Civil War when the nation rebuilt the South and debated the rights of freedpeople. There are 3 sheets for 8th grade here, each with an answer key. Reconstruction Plans of Lincoln, Johnson and Congress compares four plans, Argument on the Freedmen's Bureau's Record builds an argument from four source cards, and the crossword reviews the Black Codes and the 14th Amendment. The sheets practice D2.His.14.6-8 and D4.1.6-8.

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Congress created it in March 1865 to give food, schools and help with work contracts to people freed from slavery. A Bureau report of January 1, 1870, counted about 2,600 schools and about 122,000 pupils.

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