Summary
A parody song on Reconstruction -- the difficult effort to rebuild the South and secure rights for newly freed people after the Civil War, and why much of it fell short. A bridge to later civil-rights history.
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Covers the aftermath of slavery and the Civil War -- preview first.
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Discussion
A parody song on Reconstruction -- the difficult effort to rebuild the South and secure rights for newly freed people after the Civil War, and why much of it fell short.
- What did Reconstruction try to fix or build after the war?
- What new rights were freed people supposed to gain?
- Why was rebuilding and protecting rights so hard?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: Reconstruction, rebuild, rights.
Try it: List one goal of Reconstruction and one reason it was hard to reach.