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What do you
remember?
January 25, 2016
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IMPORTANT
Robert E. Lee (S)
Civil War
Ulysses S.
Grant (N)
Civil War
N/ Union
won
War between the Nations (N and S)
Aug 8­12:51 PM
Aug 8­12:51 PM
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1. Block activity
Let's make a flap booklet.
1. You'll need 4 flaps.
Reconstruction means­
inside
cover
Civil War
Who fought?
Impt. People
Who won?
War between the nations (N and S)
North and South
Robert E. Lee (S) Ulysses S. Grant
(N)
North
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Aug 8­12:55 PM
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Aug 8­12:59 PM
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Reconstruction means­
to rebuild
Aug 8­1:00 PM
Aug 8­2:23 PM
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Different groups of people had
Abraham Lincoln
different aims (goals) for
reconstruction .
** wanted to preserve the Union and end
the Civil War ASAP! He said reconstruction
would be easy.
We are going to learn
about 4.
Aug 8­1:02 PM
Aug 8­1:04 PM
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If 10% of a state would agree to
13th amendment, they could form
a new state government and
rejoin the Union.
Pres. Lincoln IS KILLED!!!
so...
10% Plan
????
Johnson becomes President
Aug 8­1:06 PM
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Aug 8­1:08 PM
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Johnson continues Lincoln's plan BUT...
Southerners
** wanted to bring an end to the war but
DIDN'T want their lives to change.
he humiliates rich southerners by making them
ask for presidential pardons
rights to
freedmen
(FYI: He had grown up very poor.)
Aug 8­1:11 PM
they denied
Aug 8­1:04 PM
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** they passed Black Codes
rules that kept African
Americans inferior
United States Congress
**wanted to ensure that the war was not
in vain and freed slaves would be free.
They used violence and threats to
restrict their freedom
Aug 8­1:15 PM
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Aug 8­1:15 PM
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*they started the FREEDMAN'S BUREAU
*they passed the 14th amendment
ANYONE born in this country is a
citizen of this country
to protect freedmen from the Black
Codes
gave hospitals, food, schools (over
1000 schools in the south)
Do you remember Dred Scott decision (4th grade)??
This changes everything!!!
Aug 8­1:21 PM
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Aug 8­1:21 PM
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Radical
Reconstruction
*Congress put new reconstruction policy in place.
Military was placed in the southern states to enforce
14th amendment.
Aug 8­1:27 PM
States also had to write new constitutions and
recognize rights of African Americans.
Southerners called this RADICAL and tried to
discredit the policy.
Aug 8­1:30 PM
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Southern African Americans
Southern African Americans
** wanted to consolidate their families and
communities
** wanted equal citizenship (land and
education)
** wanted to establish churches
** wanted independence
Why do you think these were impt?
Why do you think these were impt?
Aug 8­1:34 PM
Aug 8­1:34 PM
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Partner Up­ Quiz one another on the 4
different groups and their aims for
reconstruction.
Aug 8­1:37 PM
Aug 8­2:14 PM
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Let's make an egg booklet.
Reconstruction Amendments
inside
cover
Do you remember
which ones?
Amendments­ designed to end slavery and
protect their rights
13th­ freed the slaves everywhere in the US.
14th­ gave citizenship to all BORN here
sounds great, right??.. was all well
with the world now?
??????????????
These amendments were only effective while
Republicans were in charge or if military was present
to protect them.
15th­ male citizens could vote
Aug 8­12:55 PM
Aug 8­1:42 PM
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General Sherman advocated giving "forty
acres and a mule" to African Americans.
We are going to divide into groups of 4.
Your task:
this didn't happen much b/c most didn't have
$$$$
Come up with a rap, poem, phrase, song, etc to
help us remember each amendment and its
purpose.
SO.....
they agreed to work the land and get a
share of the crop they grew
Aug 8­2:15 PM
Aug 8­1:55 PM
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Sharecropping
this gave freedmen social
independence
BUT economic dependence
Aug 8­1:58 PM
Sep 20­10:10 AM
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Plantations
Sharecropping
Aug 8­3:32 PM
Aug 8­2:19 PM
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Terrorist groups like KKK
Ku Klux Klan
­ working class whites
­ judges, lawyers, etc.
Aug 8­2:00 PM
Aug 8­2:17 PM
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Let's make a flap booklet.
1. You'll need 2 flaps that open at the top.
row
im C
s
Law
J
aimed to maintain
white supremacy
inside
cover
scalawags carpet baggers
poor whites who
cooperated with
Republicans
(needed
sharecropping)
northerners who
moved south
(negative term used
by southerners)
Aug 8­12:55 PM
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keep races separate
(schools, trains, etc.)
Aug 8­2:06 PM
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court case­
Plessy vs. Ferguson
said "separate but equal" was legal
Sep 24­8:37 AM
Aug 8­2:08 PM
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In the south, other laws were passed too against
African Americans.
­ you had to pass a literacy test in order
to vote
­ you had to pay a poll tax
***FYI: poor whites got around this
(Grandfather clause...)
Sep 24­8:46 AM
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Aug 8­2:10 PM
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In the north, African Americans:
­ lived in separate neighborhoods
­ last to be hired
­ first to be fired
­ could vote but had little political power
Aug 8­2:11 PM
Aug 8­2:29 PM
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Aug 8­3:09 PM
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