Revisit the US history exam resources page and select a sample question from the free-response samples that is different from the one you evaluated. Follow the directions to write your essay, and then evaluate yourself using the scoring guidelines rubric and sample responses to the
topic you selected.

was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all americans. the era has had a lasting impact on united states society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism. in the south violence and fraud in southern elections from 1868 to 1876, which had reduced black voter turnout and enabled southern white democrats to regain power in state legislatures across the south

payments were made after the 1940s.

in the 1980s, a commission held investigations and made recommendations.