Introductory, Practice Comparison – the Content

What You Have to Read for Each Possible Comparison and What the Terms Mean?

Reminder about the Requirements with Each of These Topics– Now in Yellow

If You Are Using the 3rd Edition Paperback or Any Earlier Version - What You Have to Read for Each Time Period

Essential Background

Background about Reading Efficiently and Accurately

Background about the Terms

Backgrounds You Can Observe in the Table

 

Reminder: the Instructions are in the link above.

 

What You Have to Read for Each Possible Comparison and What the Terms Mean?

If you want to read dictionary definitions, you can find them beneath this link.

Reminder about the Requirements with Each of These Topics– Now in Yellow

You do 1 of the 3 choices exactly as written. In each these 3 choices for Comparison topics, make sure you meet the listed requirements above:

 

 

1.     African Americans in the South from 1865 to 1867 compared with their condition from 1867 to 1872.

The readings for this comparison topic are:

Time Period

What You Read in the 4th Edition Paperback (For Earlier Editions, See Below.)

African Americans in the South from 1865 to 1867

Pages 397-399, 403-407 in Chapters 15 & 16. Look for these headings:

·         “Emancipation in the South”

·         “Black Mobilization”

·         “Andrew Johnson”

·         “Johnson and the Radicals”

·         “The Reconstruction Act of 1867”

·         “Reconstruction Begins” (stops at “Despite these…”)

 

African Americans in the South from 1867 to 1872

Pages 409, 411-413, 420-421, 424 in Chapter 16. Look for these headings:

·         “The Fifteenth Amendment”

·         “The Rise of the Klan”

·         “Breaking the Power of the Klan”

·         “Grant and the 1872 Election”

·         “The 1872 Election”

 

PLUS some elections from 1868 are in Chapter 16 in “The Stigma of Corruption” on page 424.

 

 

2.     African Americans in the South from 1865 to 1867 compared with their condition from 1872 to 1877.

The readings for this comparison topic are:

Time Period

What You Read in the 4th Edition Paperback (For Earlier Editions, See Below.)

African Americans in the South from 1865 to 1867

Pages 397-399, 403-407 in Chapters 15 & 16. Look for these headings:

·         “Emancipation in the South”

·         “Black Mobilization”

·         “Andrew Johnson”

·         “Johnson and the Radicals”

·         “The Reconstruction Act of 1867”

·         “Reconstruction Begins” (stops at “Despite these…”)

 

African Americans in the South from 1872 to 1877

Pages 423-429 in Chapter 16. Look for the “The Failure of Reconstruction” which includes

·         The Stigma of Corruption”

·         “The Resurgence of the Democrats”
Caution: the law created in the lame-duck session in 1875 is gutted by the Supreme Court in 1883.

·         “Why Reconstruction Failed.”
Caution: the use of the word segregation in text is about the future, not the period of 1872-1877.

·         “The Race for the White House

 

 

3.     African Americans in the South from 1867 to 1872 compared with their condition from 1872 to 1877.

 

The readings for this comparison topic are:

Time Period

What You Read in the 4th Edition Paperback (For Earlier Editions, See Below.)

African Americans in the South from 1867 to 1872

Pages 409, 411-413, 420-421, 424 in Chapter 16. Look for these headings:

·         “The Fifteenth Amendment”

·         “The Rise of the Klan”

·         “Breaking the Power of the Klan”

·         “Grant and the 1872 Election”

·         “The 1872 Election”

 

PLUS some elections from 1868 are in Chapter 16 in “The Stigma of Corruption” on page 424.

African Americans in the South from 1872 to 1877

Pages 423-429 in Chapter 16. Look for the “The Failure of Reconstruction” which includes

·         The Stigma of Corruption”

·         “The Resurgence of the Democrats”
Caution: the law created in the lame-duck session in 1875 is gutted by the Supreme Court in 1883.

·         “Why Reconstruction Failed.”
Caution: the use of the word segregation in text is about the future, not the period of 1872-1877.

·         “The Race for the White House

 

If You Are Using the 3rd Edition Paperback or Any Earlier Version - What You Have to Read for Each Time Period

The publisher changed the organization of the textbook with the 4th edition. If you are using an earlier edition than the 4th edition, use this link to find:

·         Chapter numbers and headings for the 3rd edition and earlier editions 

Specific page numbers in the 3rd edition paperback.

Essential Background

Students fail at understanding history because they start writing before they have read enough and even tried to figure things out. The remaining things on this webpage cover where students have frequently misunderstood.

Background about Reading Efficiently and Accurately

If you want to consider a common sense reading method provided in Good Habits for Evidence, click here..

 

This link also shows an example of how I label in the margins any words I have to do something with—including explain the content to another person. I was taught to do this kind of marking years ago by a community college professor. Although I marked this page very quickly, it is shows two basic principles of any information where you have to do something:

1) Read once, but mark the facts with labels so you can:

2) When you use your marked text, you not only save time but also begin to understand it better and catch your own mistakes.

Background about the Terms

Be cautious. Use the terms provided below this link.

Backgrounds You Can Observe in the Table

If you want this as a printable pdf, click here.

 

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