Begin with short re-cap of the Civil War and ‘Reconstruction’ to establish some baseline levels of knowledge, then proceed on to new course material—

TOPICS FOR THE DAY

(a) “Reconstruction Amendments” (13, 14th, 15th)

(b) “Share-cropping”– did the South actually WIN the Civil War?

(c) Emergence of the Ku Klux Klan and America’s first domestic terrorist group

(d) Jim Crow Laws , “Plessy v. Ferguson”, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois