Mississippi College & Career Readiness Standards
EIGHTH GRADE: US HISTORY: EXPLORATION TO 1877
CIVICS, ECONOMICS, CIVIL RIGHTS, GEOGRAPHY, AND HISTORY
8.10. Analyze the Reconstruction efforts in post- Civil War America. (Strands: Civics, Civil Rights, Geography, History, Economics)
8.10.1. Compare congressional and presidential reconstruction plans.
8.10.2. Trace the economic changes in the post- Civil War South, including: Lincoln’s Plan, Wade- Davis Bill, Johnson’s Plan, Radical Reconstruction.
8.10.4. Examine the Southern resistance to Reconstruction reforms, including: Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, Ku Klux Klan, etc.