Civil War Reconstruction Project
Instructions:
- Due Monday, February 25
- Groups of 1-3 students from the same class
- Create a product that demonstrates your understanding of the impact that specific events, actions, and people had on Reconstruction in Georgia and the South.
- The product must include the name, date, and description of the event along with the impact of the event as expressed from the perspective of a Northerner or a Southerner.
- The project must include a cover page on which the students responsible for the product are listed all sources are cited.
- Lincoln's Assassination
- Presidential Reconstruction Plan vs Congressional Reconstruction Plan
- Black Codes
- 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution
- Ku Klux Klan Act
- Henry McNeal Turner and other black legislators
- Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1867
- The Georgia Act
- Rise of the Bourbons
- Compromise of 1877
Examples of products that you may choose to create:
- Newsletter or Newspaper
- Diary or logbook
- Blog Web Site
- Video taped T.V. Talk Show
- Video taped political debate
- Video Documentary
- other
