Due Friday, December 1, 2006

I. Reconstruction Ends

II. “I Never Before Saw Children So Eager to Learn”

Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper.

1. Who was Charlotte Forten?

2. Why were the children in the paragraph so eager to learn? Use your knowledge of these children’s lives after the Civil War as well as the information from the passage.

III. A Segregated Southern Town in the 1880s

Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper.

1. What types of buildings or geographic features did the African American part of this town have more of than the white area?

2. What building did African Americans need to go to the white area to visit?

3. Which part of the segregated southern town had more schools?

4. What conclusion can you make about the effects of segregation based on the information from this map?

IV. Study for a Test on Reconstruction – Wednesday Dec. 6 DON’T FORGET YOUR NOTEBOOK!!!

You will have a test on Reconstruction next Wednesday. It will cover the last four weeks of homeworks (since Nov. 10) and pages 430-449 in your textbook.