Download Reconstruction Plans

Think about it….
You are a member of the Union at the end of Civil
War.
• How do you feel about the South?
• Do you want the South to become part of the
country again?
• How easy/hard should it be for rebel areas to
become states again (Scale 1-5)?
We will share your answers to this.
Today’s Agenda
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Opening activity
What are the Union’s options for the South?
You become the advisors
Discussing the possible plans?
Let’s Map it out
Before you go…
Before we start…
• Homework: Vocabulary
• Word, definition, and picture/symbol
– Black Codes
– Sharecropping
– Jim Crow Laws
– Poll tax
– Grandfather Clause
- Segregation
- redeemers
- Plessy v. Ferguson
Options for the South
You are the advisors
• Break into 4 groups
• Read about plan
• Isolate important information
• Be prepared to report to the class on your
plan
• Evaluate: is this a good plan? The best plan?
Let’s hear our options
• Carousel
– Small groups- move from poster to poster
– Take notes on the others
– Identify questions
– Evaluate- Which plan was best? Which plan was
most strict? Least strict?
Summary of the Plans
10 Percent Plan
• 10% of voters in a state had
to take an oath pledging
their allegiance to the
Constitution and the Union
Wade-Davis Bill
• 50% of voters in a state had
to take an oath pledging
their allegiance to the
Constitution and the Union
• States had a Constitutional
Convention to write their
new state constitution
• States had to abolish slavery
– State constitutions must
abolish slavery
Summary of the Plans
Johnson’s Plan
• Johnson argued the South
never truly left the Union
• Poor Southerners were
pardoned
• Wealthy Southerners were
blamed for secession and
had to plead for a pardon
• Abolish slavery
• Ratify the 14th amendment
Reconstruction Acts
• South was split into 5
military districts
• Each district led by a
general and his army
• To get the military to leave,
the state needed to:
– Abolish slavery
– Ratify the 14th amendment
– Allow African Americans to
vote
Let’s map it out
• Graphic organizer- Venn Diagram or T-Chart
• 3 Plans- compare/contrast
Before you go…
• Homework: Explain the pros and cons of the
plan you did not include in your organizer.
• Evaluate whether the plan was a good or bad
strategy based on the pros and cons.
• Small poster
• Paragraph
• Other idea? Ask me first