Read and analyze the question and related documents presented in this Advanced US History Document Based Question: To what extent did Reconstruction bring the Southern Negro the equality and freedom that slavery had denied them?

Follow the process described below and use the links to help you formulate a well-organized essay with a clearly stated thesis, or argument, in response to the assignment. In your response, you should do the following:

State a relevant thesis that directly addresses all parts of the question.
Support the thesis or a relevant argument with evidence from all, or all but one, of the documents.
Incorporate analysis of all, or all but one, of the documents into your argument.
Focus your analysis of each document on at least one of the following: intended audience, purpose, historical context, and/or point of view.
Support your argument with analysis of historical examples outside the documents.
Connect historical phenomena relevant to your argument to broader events or processes.
Synthesize the elements above into a persuasive essay.
Upload your essay to the Graded Activities panel at the left-hand side of the screen along with notes taken during the essay development.

Process

Follow these steps to complete your DBQ essay. Use the links provided to help review the writing guidelines you learned in this unit. Keep an informal record of notes, reflections, and answers to some of the guiding questions and submit it along with your essay when you have completed it.