You will complete the chart below to categorize some of the changes that took place after the Civil War. You will consider challenges created by changes made during Reconstruction. A challenge is something to be overcome due to a change. Some of the changes you learned about in this module presented challenges for society. Often challenges help to encourage more change.

Example: Your school makes a change and no longer provide bus transportation to and from school. The new challenge is how to get to school and how to get home every day.

Type of Change
Example of one change caused by the Civil War and Reconstruction
Example of one challenge to the change (what made this change difficult?)
Political
Ex: laws, voting, government elections

Economic
Ex: jobs, trade, who has
money/power

Social
Ex: how people interact with each other and how people treat each other, who has power in society

Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Use the chart above and the lesson to help answer the questions. Be sure to include at least TWO specific details from the lesson to support your responses in questions #1 and #2.

1. a. Which type of change—political, social, or economic—had the most impact on Southern life? b. Support this opinion with two specific pieces of evidence from the lesson.

2. a. Which type of change—political, social, or economic—faced the most challenges? b. Why were Southerners against this type of change? c. Support your view with two specific pieces of evidence from the lesson.

3. For the first hundred years of the United States, only white males had the right to vote. Since then, amendments to the Constitution have made it so that any citizen aged 18 or older can vote. a. Which amendments granted different groups the right to vote?
b. Why were amendments needed to expand voting rights?