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title: "SSUSH10: Reconstruction Era Dimensions (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SSUSH10
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# SSUSH10: Reconstruction Era Dimensions

Identify legal, political, and social dimensions of Reconstruction.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: High School, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/high-school.md

## Expectations

- **SSUSH10.a**: Compare and contrast Presidential Reconstruction with Congressional Reconstruction, including the significance of Lincoln's assassination and Johnson's impeachment.
- **SSUSH10.b**: Investigate the efforts of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (the Freedmen's Bureau) to support poor whites, former slaves, and American Indians.
- **SSUSH10.c**: Describe the significance of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments.
- **SSUSH10.d**: Explain the Black Codes, the Ku Klux Klan, and other forms of resistance to racial equality during Reconstruction.
- **SSUSH10.e**: Analyze how the Presidential Election of 1876 marked the end of Reconstruction.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

- US History (EOC). New Republic through Reconstruction. New Republic through Reconstruction (about 20% of the test; 9 points; shared with other standards, so count these points once and never add them up per standard)

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