Paper Assignment: How Successful was Reconstruction in securing the right of the formerly enslaved?
Form: Research paper
Textbook: Alan Brinkley, Unfinished Nation – latest edition
Note: Any act of plagiarism will result in a zero for the assignment and disciplinary action. A second confirmed act of plagiarism will merit removal from the class.
Instructions: Step 1, gather evidence (statistics, events, and examples) from your textbook and class lectures concerning Reconstruction and its relation to African American rights from the end of the Civil War to the later 1800s.
Web Resources:
https://www.columbiastate.edu/library/
or
https://scholar.google.com
Step 2, analyze the evidence. Write what YOU find to be the most significant evidence to the question of how successful Reconstruction was for African Americans. Note that “success” is a relative term, and that essentially no event is totally successful or totally a failure. Be specific with your evidence in describing what worked well, what did not, and why.
Step 3, communicate your findings honestly to yourself and others. Write a three-page paper (around 1,500 words) showing your conclusions from your analyses, and the copious evidence (statistics, events, and examples) that led you to those conclusions. Then go to the “Course Work” tab, select “Assignments,” and submit your paper in the appropriate folder.
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