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Item Nr: KM 927 Title: Reconstruction-Civil War-Jackdaw (BB)
Grade Lvl: JS Author:
Length: 0 Prod/Pub: Jackdaw Publications
Copyright: 1972 Series: JACKDAWS
Book Type: Biographee:
Copies: 1 Loan Period: 10 days
 
  This Jackdaw provides the background to Reconstruction after the Civil War and describes the intense political battles that shaped it. It examines the struggle of the blacks for jobs, schools, land reform and political power. How the new governments performed, and their overthrow, is created through prints, photographs, cartoons, broadsheets, newspapers — hands-on documents of the time. Historian: Milton Meltzer. Please see professional book: B 96732 for ideas to support teaching and learning with Jackdaw primary sources. IL 8-12. The contents of this Jackdaw feature: Broadsheets No More Driver’s Lash for Me Black Codes and a White Rule Forty Acres and a Mule From Sheriff to Senator Home Rule Again and White Supremacy Historical Documents Chronology of Reconstruction. Broadside: “Men of Color, To Arms! Now or Never!” about 1863. Portraits of Black Members of the Louisiana Legislature of 1868, with extracts from the Reconstruction Constitution. Ku Klux Klan sheet. Front page of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, December 26, 1868. Front page of the New Orleans Tribune, January 15, 1869. Five Thomas Nast cartoons. Joint Resolutions of Congress proposing the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Two pages of the Report on Conditions of Affairs in the Southern States, 1872. Broadside: Robert B. Elliott Delivering His Speech on Civil Rights, January 6, 1874. Study Guide / Lesson Plan – Reproducible Activities

  Subjects:
  58 - AMERICA--HISTORY/AMERICAN
  590 - HIGH SCHOOLS
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES
  921 - RECONSTRUCTION
  1004 - SOCIAL CHANGE
  1007 - SOCIAL STUDIES
  1942 - TEACHER RESOURCES
  1108 - U.S.--HISTORY
  1118 - U.S.--HISTORY--CIVIL WAR
  1133 - U.S.--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT/AMERICAN
  1136 - U.S.--SOCIAL CONDITIONS
  1605 - VISUAL LITERACY