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Georgia Studies Unit 5b (AKS 36): AKS 36: ANALYZE THE IMPACT OF RECONSTRUCTION ON GEORGIA

36a: Explain the roles of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments in Reconstruction.
36b: Explain the key features of the Lincoln, the Johnson, and the Congressional Reconstruction plans.
36c: Compare and contrast the goals and outcomes of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Ku Klux Klan.
36d: Examine reasons for and effects of the removal of African American or Black legislators from the Georgia General Assembly during Reconstruction.
36e: Give examples of goods and services produced during the Reconstruction Era, including the use of sharecropping and tenant farming and the rise of the textile industry.

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Link to the New Georgia Encyclopedia, this is a great resource for students. Their academic data base houses thousands of searchable articles with a wealth of information related to our AKS: 

This link has articles arranged by standard under the 8th Grade section

This is a link to the article on Reconstruction in Georgia