Scenario A – You are a 30 year old man who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. You were drafted and did not choose to fight voluntarily. You owned no slaves before the war, and you, your wife, and three daughters all farm cotton on a modest 100-acre farm. You return home from the war to find your farm in ruins, and your youngest daughter is sick and near death. 1.Do you think the US government should punish you for fighting in the war? Why? 2.Do you think the US government should punish your state and other former Confederate states for seceding and causing the war to take place? Why?

Scenario B – You are a 23 year old man who fought for the Union during the Civil War. You return home to your wife having had one arm amputated due to a serious wound from battle. Before the war, you and your wife worked in a textile mill, and you live in a simple, modest home. You lost your father, uncle, and brother-in-law during the war. 1.How should the US government punish former soldiers for their involvement in the war? 2.Should members of the Confederate government be punished as well? If so, how? 3.Do you think the US government should punish former Confederate states for seceding and causing the war to take place? If so, how?

Scenario C – You are a 52 year old man who was a member of Georgia’s General Assembly during the Civil War. You voted for secession but hoped that the Confederacy would never have to fight against the United States. You simply wanted to live in peace the way you saw fit without interference from the federal government. You never personally fought in the war due to serious health problems. You owned a 10,000 acre cotton plantation just north of Macon and had 80 slaves before the war. Your farm was severely damaged by Sherman as he made his March to the Sea – cotton storehouses were set afire and your gins were destroyed. Almost all your former slaves have left the plantation although a few chose to stay with you and see if they could continue to work for you for wages. 1.Do you think the US government should punish you for being involved in the war? Why or why not? 2.Do you think the US government should punish your state and other former Confederate states for seceding and causing the war to take place? Why or why not?

Scenario D – You are a 31 year old man who was a field-hand slave on a 10,000 acre cotton plantation just north of Macon before the war. You have seen your two youngest sons sold to other masters outside the state and don’t know when or if you will ever see them again. You and your wife have withstood emotional and physical abuse at the hands of your master for more than 15 years. Almost all the slaves who worked with you left the plantation after the war was over, but you are afraid that if you leave, you will not be able to provide shelter, food, and clothing for yourself and your wife and that you might not be able to find work. 1.Do you think the US government should punish former Confederate soldiers for being involved in the war? Why or why not? 2.Do you think the US government should punish former Confederate states for seceding and causing the war to take place? Why or why not?

Scenario E – You are a 40 year old businessman who was drafted into the Union army for less than one-year of active service during the Civil War. Thankfully, you escaped the war unharmed and were able to return home to your family. After the war, you hope to invest some of your wealth in creating new factories and businesses in and around Atlanta, GA. You hope that you will be able to take advantage of the desperate situation that many Southerners are in and will be able to make a huge profit. 1.Do you think the US government should punish former Confederate soldiers for being involved in the war? Why or why not? 2.Do you think the US government should punish former Confederate states for seceding and causing the war to take place? Why or why not?

RECONSTRUCTION STANDARD: SS8H6.c - Analyze the impact of Reconstruction on Georgia and other southern states, emphasizing Freedmen's Bureau; sharecropping and tenant farming; Reconstruction plans; 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the constitution; Henry McNeal Turner and black legislators; and the Ku Klux Klan. SS8H6.c