8.04 Reconstruction Assessment Step 1:
Fill in the chart considering how events like the 15th Amendment, the election of 1876,
Jim Crow laws and racial tension impacted the South. Consider not only the changes that
took place during reconstruction but also the challenges to those changes and how long
the effects of the changes lasted.
Type of
Example of One Change Caused by
the Civil War and Reconstruction
Change
Political
Example of One Challenge to Change
Economic
Social

Reconstruction—Reconstruction Chart

Type of ChangeExample of One Change Caused by the Civil War and ReconstructionExample of One Challenge to Change

Political

African Americans started to gain political rights .

Voting Rights

Economic

The South had people to work on farms.

Slavery Stopped

Social

Ku Klux Klan was createdKu Klux Klan was developed, a group that believed that white race was the dominate race.

Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Be sure to include at least two specific details from the lesson to support your response.

1.  Which type of change—political, social, or economic—had the most impact on Southern life?

    The type of change that had the most impact on Southern life is on political.  The breakdown of the Confederate States and the Civil War that occurred between the South and the North changed the political structure of the Southern portion.  While they lost against the North in the Civil War, they had to change their preferred politics, and to adapt to what the successful side (North) wanted.

2.  Which type of change—political, social, or economic—faced the most challenges?  

 Why were Southerners against this type of change?

    The social and political changes that were most challenging. The Southern citizens has been forced to adapt to social and political changes after the North beat them in the Civil War. The slavery and the racial segregation that was normal in the Southern lives must change.

3.  For the first hundred years of the United States, only white males were able to vote. Since then, amendments to the Constitution have made it so that any citizen aged 18 or older can vote. Which amendments granted different groups the right to vote? Why were amendments needed to expand voting rights?

    The 15th amendment (for slaves), the 19th amendment (for women), and the 26th amendment (for citizens 18 and above) are the amendments that was given to different groups the right to vote. They needed to increase the voting rights, and to listen to the opinions of these groups.

Explanation: