Chapter 13 – 8th Grade Social Studies

Reconstruction after the Civil War

You will use Pages 374 – 405 from your Social Studies Text Book

You are to write an Essay of 1,000 words on ONE of the following Topics:

1. A local newspaper has asked for your reaction to the following question: "What should we (the Union) do with Robert E. Lee and other high ranking Confederate soldiers?"

Write your response with reasons for your answers.

OR

2. Write a Song, Poem and Letter describing the Reconstruction process after the Civil War.

OR

3. Historians have said that when John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln, he killed the South’s most powerful friend. In what ways might Reconstruction have been different if Lincoln had lived? Why?

GRADING :

Content - /20

Understanding of Concepts and Ideas - /20

TOTAL : /40

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