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SS8H6

Analyze the impact of Reconstruction on Georgia.

a. Explain the roles of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments in Reconstruction.

b. Explain the key features of the Lincoln, the Johnson, and the Congressional Reconstruction plans.

c. Compare and contrast the goals and outcomes of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the Ku Klux Klan.

d. Examine reasons for and effects of the removal of African American or Black legislators from the Georgia General Assembly during Reconstruction.

e. Give examples of goods and services produced during the Reconstruction Era, including the use of sharecropping and tenant farming.

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