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Why Was It Difficult To "reconstruct the South"? Lesson Plan

Why Was It Difficult To "reconstruct the South"? Lesson Plan

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Why Was It Difficult To "reconstruct the South"?

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Pupils examine problems faced by the states of the Confederacy following the Civil war. They predict how Lincoln wanted to handle the problem of reconstruction by listening to his words. They describe conditions in the South following the Civil War.

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reconstruction, the reconstruction era

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reconstruction, social studies

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9th - 12th

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Social Studies & History

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