Create an essay that compares and contrasts the videos with your previous learning on the topic and with the information provided within your textbook, Becoming America.What were you taught about Reconstruction in High School?How does your previous learning compare to the videos?What were the immediate and the long-term effects of the Reconstruction events?How did the assassination of President Lincoln actually further destroy the South?If the events of Reconstruction are a proverbial pebble in a pond, what were the resulting ripples in our history? What were your reactions to the Nadir of Race PowerPoint? Why have we covered up and “white-washed” so much of our own history?How were the seeds of the Civil Rights Movement planted during the Reconstruction?Why, in your opinion, would some people not want the details of the Reconstruction taught to students?
