Emancipation, Reconstruction & Historical Inquiry — Chapter overview · U.S. & New York History: Indigenous Nations to Reconstruction, Grade 7
Five focused units, a three-session source workshop, chapter review, and chapter quiz.
Chapter question
How did legal change, people’s agency, and enforcement reshape freedom and participation?
Units in this chapter
- Unit 8.1 · Emancipation: Policy, Self-Liberation & Black Military Service
I can explain why the Proclamation exempted the border states.
- Unit 8.2 · Wartime Life, New York Draft Riots & Civilian Choices
I can explain how the 1863 draft worked and what the commutation fee did.
- Unit 8.3 · Reconstruction: Reunion, Labor, Community & Its Limits
I can describe what freedpeople did first with their freedom.
- Unit 8.4 · Thirteenth, Fourteenth & Fifteenth Amendments
I can state what each of the three Reconstruction amendments does.
- Unit 8.5 · History Capstone: Build, Test & Revise an Explanation
I can write a claim that names a change, a cause and a date range.