1) What was Reconstruction, why did it end, and what are the 3 Civil

War Amendments to the Constitution?

2) How did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois agree and

disagree about providing different kinds of educational opportunities for

the 4 million former enslaved people, and their children and

grandchildren.

3) Why was lynching such a powerful tool of oppression? Why was this

illegal practice not ended either by local or state law enforcement or by

the federal government? What has the EJI done to commemorate the

lives lost to lynching?