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Here are the teacher pack items for Economic and Social Effects of Reconstruction in Texas:
In this experience, students identify carpetbaggers and scalawags. Then, they learn about sharecropping and examine advantages and disadvantages for the former slaves. Finally, they write a journal entry from the point of view of a person that participated in sharecropping as a land tenant. Students will collaborate in small groups for scene 2 through scene 4. Objective:
Carpetbagger
Look at the political cartoon of a carpetbagger. What observations can you make? List one observation. If someone has already made your observation, try to think of a different one.
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In this experience, you will learn about the carpetbaggers and other economic and social phenomena that arose in the South following the Civil War.
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