Expanding Citizenship

In this lesson, students will learn how the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments helped to provide freedoms to African Americans and other groups in our country’s history. Students will focus on the 13th amendment during the period of Reconstruction in helping to end slavery. Students will then look at how the 13th amendment did not guarantee citizenship or freedoms to those newly freed slaves and that additional amendments were needed to help provide that. Students will be able to analyze text from the 14th and 15th amendments. Teachers will help guide students in an analysis of the text from the U.S. Constitution and apply it to the historical events during the Reconstruction Era.
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General Information

Subject(s): Social Studies
Grade Level(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Intended Audience: Educators educators
Suggested Technology: Computer for Presenter, Interactive Whiteboard
Instructional Time: 45 Minute(s)
Resource supports reading in content area:Yes
Keywords: Civil War, Reconstruction, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, slavery, suffrage, African Americans, citizenship, due process, equal protection, abolish, U.S. Constitution, amendments
Instructional Component Type(s): Lesson Plan
Instructional Design Framework(s): Structured Inquiry (Level 2)
Resource Collection: Integrated Social Studies with Civics Teacher Resources - Grades 6-12

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