Unit 7: Civil war and Reconstruction Activity 9: Reconstruction and Louisiana's African American Population (GLEs: 65, 75)
CC: Have students complete the following graphic organizer: Effects of Reconstruction on Louisiana's African American Population
MS Word template - "Effects of Reconstruction on Louisiana's African American Population"
CC: Have students create a Venn diagram reflecting the similarities and differences in the lives between the slave and the sharecropper.
MS Word template - "Slaves and Sharecroppers"
Web Sites: World Book Online http://www.louisianaschools.net/worldbook/
EBSCO (Use your school link to EBSCO)
Unitedstreaming video America's Early Years, 1789-1816: American Slavery: The Southern Plantation Way of Life The Life of a Plantation Slave (02:00)
Additional Resources Use word processing software such as Microsoft Word to create graphic organizer chart How Do I...Create a Table? http://monroe.k12.la.us/mcs/training/word/table.html Use word processing software such as Microsoft Word to create Venn Diagram Venn Diagram Template http://www.louisianaschools.net/lde/intech/7_12/day4/venn2.rtf
Websites The Great Republic By the Master Historians Vol. III http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_III/ Reconstruction: A State Divided http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/cabildo/cab11.htm Louisiana: A History http://www.louisianahistory.org/video/index.html Reconstruction: The Second Civil War http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/sharecrop/index.html Mississippi History Now http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/features/feature50/farmers.htm Library of Congress: Born in Slavery http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/ Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices From The Special Collections Library http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/slavery/
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