Unit The Reconstruction Era 3-Week Unit

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Excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment (en español)

In Spanish, this reading contains excerpts from the Emanicipation Proclimation and the Thirteenth Amendment.

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Fragmento tomado de la Proclamación de Emancipación y la Decimotercera Enmienda

Fragmento tomado de la Proclamación de Emancipación:

Que el primer día de enero del año 1863 de nuestro Señor, todas las personas que se tengan esclavas en cualquier Estado o en una parte determinada de un Estado, personas que se han rebelado contra los Estados Unidos serán libres a partir de ahora y para siempre; y el poder ejecutivo de los Estados Unidos, incluidas las autoridades militares y navales del mismo, reconocerán y mantendrán la libertad de tales personas y no ejercerán represión en contra de tales personas ni de ninguna de ellas en sus intentos por alcanzar su libertad real.

La Decimotercera Enmienda:

Sección 1. Ni en los Estados Unidos ni en ningún lugar sujeto a su jurisdicción habrá esclavitud ni trabajo forzado, excepto como castigo de un crimen del que el responsable haya quedado debidamente convicto.

Sección 2. El Congreso tendrá la facultad de hacer cumplir este artículo por medio de leyes apropiadas.

Facing History & Ourselves, “Excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment (en español)”, last updated Septiembre 1, 2022.

Lesson

Students examine documents that shed light on life in the South under the policies of Presidential Reconstruction in 1865 and 1866.

Photo shows a group of six African American men and women posed picking cotton in a field.

Lesson

Students learn about the responses to Johnson’s policies by Republicans in Congress and examine the fourteenth amendment that overturned Presidential Reconstruction.

Photo of page 1 of the 14th amendment of the US Constitution

Lesson

Students reflect on the revolutionary changes that occurred because of the landmark legislation and amendments passed during the Reconstruction era.

A studio portrait shows African American members of the General Assembly from 1887 to 1888

Lesson

Students learn about the debate within the women’s rights movement over the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments.

Five black women officers sitting for a portrait

Lesson

Students explore some of the limitations of Reconstruction's transformation on US democracy and learn about groups who demanded that the promise of equality be made a reality.

Seated portrait of women's voting rights advocate Susan B. Anthony.

Lesson

Students consider what it means to be free by learning about the choices and aspirations of freedpeople immediately after Emancipation.

Black students standing outside in front of a clapboard school house

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson helps students define the term, learn what forms reparations can take, and consider what reparations should be offered for slavery and other racist policies.

Lesson

Students learn about the aftermath of the Civil War and examine primary source documents that provide insight into the difficult task of reuniting the nation.

The ruins of Mills House and nearby buildings, Charleston, South Carolina, at end of American Civil War.

Lesson

Students examine President Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction and the debate it provoked with Congress while reflecting on deeper issues of healing and justice.

Columbia with black union soldier with amputated leg in ornate Greco-Roman style building

Assessment

Students culminate their arc of inquiry into the US founding by completing a C3-aligned Summative Performance Task and Taking Informed Action.

Collection

Explore resources that meet the California History–Social Science Framework standards.

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Explore resources that meet the Massachusetts History and Social Science Framework.

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Excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment (en español)

Asunto

Language

Available in

Updated

Fragmento tomado de la Proclamación de Emancipación y la Decimotercera Enmienda

Get the Reading

How to Cite This Reading

You might also be interested in…

The Union As It Was

Radical Reconstruction and the Birth of Civil Rights

Expanding Democracy

The Struggle over Women’s Rights

Equality for All

Enacting Freedom

The Debate over Reparations for Racial Injustice

The Devastation of War

Healing and Justice

Summative Performance Task & Taking Informed Action

Resources for Civic Education in California

Resources for Civic Education in Massachusetts

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