After having read Benjamin Franklin’s work, explain how it affected your understanding of colonial history in America.

1. After having read Benjamin Franklin’s work, explain how it affected your understanding of colonial history in America.  Write a minimum of 4-6 sentences and cite at least one sentence from Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography.

2.  Explain what the Ku Klux Klan was and the methods employed by members of the Klan to achieve their goals.  Also go to the Freedmans Bureau Online (Links to an external site.), read an example of a report of assault from 1868, and describe what you learned. 

3. Some historians consider the 14th amendment as “the single most significant act of the Reconstruction era”.  Read the 14th amendment HERE (Links to an external site.).  The first section grants U.S. citizenship to every person born in the United States. The law was written to protect slaves from bondage by making them equal before the law. Considering trends in global migration and economy, would you change this law today if you could? Why or why not? Write a 4-6 sentence paragraph to support your arguments.