AL+History+Standard+9

Sstandard 9.	Describe political, social, and economic conditions in Alabama during Reconstruction.
Examples:	political—military rule, presence of Freedmen’s Bureau, 	Alabama’s readmittance to the Union, sharecropping; social—carpetbaggers, scalawags, Ku Klux Klan (KKK); economic—sharecropping, scarcity of goods and money

•	Describing the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States •	Identifying the role of African Americans in politics during Reconstruction in Alabama Examples:	Benjamin Sterling Turner, United States House of 	Representatives (1871-1873); Jeremiah Haralson, Alabama State Legislature (1870-	1874) and United States House of Representatives 	(1875-1877); James Rapier, United States House of Representatives 	(1873-1875) •	Describing policies of major political parties in Alabama