Unit 1 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 – Still Applicable to the Unit 1 Comparison

Background about the Terms

Backgrounds You Can Observe in the Table – Do Not Deceive Yourself

 

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 1867 to 1872 compared with their condition from 1877 to 1887.

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.”

African Americans in the South from 1877-1887

Pages 429-430 in Chapter 16 and 453-454 in Chapter 17. Look for these headings:

·         “CONCLUSION” (stops at “As with”) – These pages include some things that WILL happen after the current time of 1877.

·         “Segregation”

Caution: These pages are about a later time than 1877, such as the Supreme Court cases after 1883. The laws in these cases are the same ones created in 1875.

 

 

2.     African Americans in the South from 1872 to 1877 compared with their condition from 1887 to 1893.

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 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”

 

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

African Americans in the South from 1887-1893

Pages 468-469 in Chapter 18. Look for this heading:

“The Spread of Segregation.”

 

 

3.     African Americans in the South from 1872 to 1877 compared with their condition from 1893 to 1901.

Tip: This is the easiest of the questions.

 

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 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”

 

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

African Americans in the South from 1893-1901

Pages 495-496, 504-505 Look for these headings:

·         “African Americans and Segregation.”

·         Paragraph on 504 beginning “The main combat” through paragraph on 505 ending “brought harmony at the expense of black Americans.

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 – Still Applicable to the Unit 1 Comparison

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 the Terms

Be cautious. Use the terms provided below this link.

Backgrounds You Can Observe in the Table – Do Not Deceive Yourself

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

 

Notice these things:

-       Notice the purple shading in the horizontal bar across the table when segregation starts.

-       Make sure you look up the word segregation in the link to definitions. It does not mean any form of nasty treatment. It is a very specific form of nasty treatment.

 

Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2015

 

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