Content Specification - SS.11.4.a.1:
Students will examine the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments and consider the role of Radical Republicans in Reconstruction.

Content Specification - SS.11.4.a.2:
Students will investigate the ways individuals, groups, and government institutions limited the rights of African Americans, including the use of Black Codes, the passage of Jim Crow laws, the Ku Klux Klan, restrictions on voting rights, and Supreme Court cases including the Civil Rights Cases (1883) and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).

Content Specification - SS.11.4.a.3:
Students will examine the ways in which freedmen attempted to build independent lives including activities of the Freedmen’s Bureau, creation of educational institutions, and political participation.

Content Specification - SS.11.4.a.4:
Students will examine the impact of the election of 1876 and the compromise of 1877on African Americans.