{"id":"study-apush-reconstruction-timeline","audience":"high-school","category":"studying","technique":"grounding","track":"study","title":"Turn scattered Reconstruction notes into a timeline","free":false,"task":"Your APUSH test on Reconstruction is Thursday and your notes jump around in time. You want a timeline to memorize: exactly 6 numbered lines in the form 'year: event', in order from earliest to latest, each event under 10 words, plain text, nothing else. It must include the 2 events Mr. Okafor said are on the test, and use only your notes, including his correction.","materialLabel":"Your APUSH notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"APUSH Unit 5 - Reconstruction (Mr. Okafor) - my notes, kind of out of order sorry\n\n- Compromise of 1877: Hayes becomes president, federal troops leave the South = end of Reconstruction\n  !! I wrote 1876 at first. Mr. Okafor said NO, the deal was 1877. (the election was 1876, the compromise was 1877)\n- 15th Amendment (1870): can't deny the vote based on race\n- Lincoln assassinated April 1865, Andrew Johnson takes over\n- 13th Amendment (1865): ends slavery\n- Freedmen's Bureau created 1865: schools, food, help finding family\n- Black Codes 1865-66: Southern laws limiting freedom of Black Americans\n- 14th Amendment (1868): citizenship + equal protection\n- Johnson impeached 1868, survives by one vote in the Senate\n- Reconstruction Acts 1867: South split into 5 military districts\n\n** Mr. Okafor: \"the 14th Amendment and the Compromise of 1877 WILL be on Thursday's test, know the years\" **\n\nRandom: KKK founded 1865-66 (in the textbook, he said not on this test)\nPick up permission slip for museum trip\nTextbook ch 15 also mentions sharecropping but we didn't cover it yet","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":6},{"type":"maxWords","max":90},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not saying how many lines","why":"The AI picks its own number, and it usually picks more lines than you need.","fix":"Be exact: \"Exactly 6 numbered lines.\"","checks":["numberedItems"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Cap each line: \"each event under 8 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Keeping the notes' order","why":"The AI tends to follow the order of your notes, which jump around in time.","fix":"Say: \"Sort the lines from earliest to latest year.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Skipping the test events","why":"The AI doesn't know which events your teacher flagged, so it may leave one out to fit 6 lines.","fix":"Add: \"Must include the 14th Amendment and the Compromise of 1877.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Missing the correction","why":"Your notes contain the wrong year next to the right one, and the AI can copy the wrong one.","fix":"Add: \"Use only my notes, and use Mr. Okafor's correction (1877).\"","checks":["r2","plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says how many lines","patterns":["\\b(6|six)\\b.{0,25}line"]},{"label":"Asks for time order","patterns":["chronolog","earliest","in order","oldest"]},{"label":"Names the test events","patterns":["14th","1877","compromise","on the test"]},{"label":"Shows the line shape","patterns":["year:\\s*event","like ['\"]","for example","e\\.g\\."]},{"label":"Says to use only the material","patterns":["only.{0,30}(notes|material|source|excerpt|text|reading|passage|draft|facts|article|handout|sheet|guide|chapter|data|list)","no outside","don't add","do not add","don't invent","correct"]}],"hint":"A timeline only helps if it's in order and has the events you'll be tested on. Tell the AI the number of lines, the shape of each one, the order, and which events must be there.","rubricLabels":["Lines run in chronological order, earliest year first (events in the same year may appear in either order)","Includes the 14th Amendment (1868) and the Compromise of 1877, with 1877 as the compromise year (not 1876)","Every line is a single 'year: event' line using only events and years from the notes (no sharecropping or other outside facts, no extra notes or headings)"]}