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Interactive Constitution: Teach About the Reconstruction Amendments

Explore the Reconstruction Amendments with the Interactive Constitution tool, featuring top scholars explaining every section. Enhance classroom learning and access free resources offered by the National Constitution Center.

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Interactive Constitution: Teach About the Reconstruction Amendments

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  1. One of our partners is the National Constitution Center…teaching about the United States Constitution in a nonpartisan mandate. The museum is located on 5th and arch and has many scholarships for trips to the Center for your students that include free transportation! The museum also offers a Traveling program that can bring the Constitution into your classroom also free of charge.

  2. The essential online tool is the new Interactive Constitution. This tool takes the top scholars in the country and has them explain every section and every clause of our Constitution. The top scholars wrote a joint explainer on what they agree on as well as two separate pieces on where that part of the Constitution is still not agreed on.

  3. https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution

  4. By clicking the link you will be able to explore the Civil War/Reconstruction Amendments. if you can click the link and show them the • 13th Ends Slavery…expect for punishment of a crime… • 14th Amendment Grants citizenship to formally enslaved people and free people. But it is also the Amendment that spells out that all persons have equal protection under the law. Meaning that no government national or STATE can take away your rights defined by the Bill of Rights. • 15th Amendment is the political arm to end slavery. Giving Black adult men the right to vote under the Constitution.

  5. But the Second Founding remains, to borrow a phrase from historian Eric Foner, an “unfinished revolution.”This was true in the Second Founders’ own time. Political compromise, the Supreme Court, and Jim Crow later silenced the promises of the Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution. 

  6. The Interactive Constitution will allow you to get the written words of the experts into your classroom, but we know they are not always accessible to all readers. We also provide another great way. Here is another great way. Meet Eric Foner, the TOP scholar on the Reconstruction the time period. This is the time period in which Catto lived and died. Foner explains what Rights Catto was fighting for that were granted but not enforced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OWW1iVRecE

  7. Explore the Reconstruction Amendments with the Interactive Constitutionat constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution

  8. Examine Scholarship on the Amendmentsat constitutioncenter.org/hallpassBring scholars into your classroom!

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