---
title: "SS4H6: Reconstruction Era Effects (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SS4H6
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SS4H6
subject: social_studies
grades:
  - grade-4
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# SS4H6: Reconstruction Era Effects

Analyze the effects of Reconstruction on American life.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: Grade 4, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/grade-4.md

## Expectations

- **SS4H6.a**: Describe the purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
- **SS4H6.b**: Explain the work of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen's Bureau).
- **SS4H6.c**: Explain how slavery was replaced by sharecropping and how freed African Americans or Blacks were prevented from exercising their newly won rights.
- **SS4H6.d**: Describe the effects of Jim Crow laws and practices.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.