Appendix on Implementing District Standards
Below are the aligned standards from the Virginia Department of Education for 7th Grade US History from 1865 to connected to this curriculum unit.
Reconstruction: 1865 to 1877
USII.3 The student will apply social science skills to understand the effects of Reconstruction on American life by:
- analyzing the impact of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States and how they changed the meaning of citizenship;
- describing the impact of Reconstruction policies on the South and North; and
- describing the legacies of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, and Frederick Douglass.
Reshaping the Nation and the Emergence of Modern America: 1877 to the Early 1900s
USII.4 The student will apply social science skills to understand how life changed after the Civil War by:
- describing racial segregation, the rise of “Jim Crow,” and other constraints faced by African Americans and other groups in the post-Reconstruction South;
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