3a 3a analyzing the impact of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States

 Note taking  Summarize Summarize  Do not need to write down everything  Highlight main ideas, underline key terms/phrases, circle important people/dates/places  NOT word for word or complete sentences (unless direct quote  Learn abbreviations  Leave space for review

 Amendment Process - The 2/3 States Convention has never been used - 27 th Amendment is most recent Ratified in 1992 Proposed in years 7 months 12 days - 18 th Amendment only amendment to be repealed by a later (21 st ) amendment - First 10 Amendments = Bill of Rights

  13 th Amendment:  14 th Amendment:  15 th Amendment: Fight over Reconstruction

  Freedman’s Bureau:  Reconstruction Acts:  Civil Rights Act of 1866 Fight over Reconstruction

  Black Codes:  Ten Percent Plan:  Civil Rights Act of 1875: Fight over Reconstruction

  Segregation:  Jim Crow Laws: Fight over Reconstruction

  January 31, 1865  Bans slavery in the United States and all of it’s territories  First mention of slavery in the Constitution  Involuntary Servitude : 13 th Amendment

  June 13, 1866  Citizenship: Granted to all persons born or naturalized in the United States  Equal protection of the laws 14 th Amendment

  February 26, 1869  Gave African Americans the right to vote  Why would women be angry? 15 th Amendment

SOL.3bdescribing the impact of Reconstruction policies on the South and North Blanche Bruce Hiram Revels Frederick Douglass

 Issues Faced  Injured/homeless soldiers  20% of the South’s adult men were dead  South was destroyed  Railroads, entire cities and towns had to be rebuilt  Factories and farmlands  Freed slaves lacked money, land and education  Guaranteed rights?  Confederate States return to Union?  Ensure that another war wouldn’t happen

 Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan 'with malice toward none and charity for all.'  Reconstruction:  Also rebuild the North’s attitude toward South  South had to take oath to Union and accept slavery’s end  A.A. right to vote…  property ownership, literacy and military service for the Union  Set up state gov’t with 10% of voting pop. has taken oath  New gov’t MUST abolish slavery

 Presidential Reconstruction  President Andrew Johnson began HIS vision of reconstruction while Congress was on recess  Pardoned hundreds of Confederate generals and officers  Returned confiscated land to White Southern Elite  States MUST agree to the 13 th Amendment  Declared Reconstruction over in 1865  How does this compare with Lincolns Plan???

 Angry Southerners Respond  Terrorist Activities  Ku Klux Klan  White League – operated in the open  Knights of the White Camelia  Mobs and riots in Memphis and New Orleans  Left many A.A. dead

 Radical Reconstruction  Congress divided the south into 5 military districts  Forced states to accept the 14 th Amendment  Put Union troops in charge of voter registration  Most laws were just ignored by whites in the south  15 th Amendment  Also granted poor whites the vote  Public Schools still segregated  Literacy rates did improve however

  “The Great Emancipator”  Literate blacks and African-American Union veterans be given the right to vote  Full pardon for and restoration of property to all engaged in the rebellion with the exception of the highest Confederate officials and military leaders  10 percent of the eligible voters had taken an oath of allegiance to the United States  South was to enact plans to deal with the freed slaves so long as their freedom was not compromised Abraham Lincoln legacy

  Used his words and oratory skills to fight for justice  empower African Americans to develop their own skills and to take responsibility for their actions.  He believed that people have the power to shape their own future.  Worked to improve civil rights for A.A. & women  His death Feb. 20, 1895, meant that he saw neither the integration of schools nor women's suffrage become law Frederick Douglass legacy

  General of the Army of Northern Virginia  Revered for his honor, gifted general and courageous  Family did own slaves  Became president of Washington & Lee University  Choose the wrong cause for which to fight Robert E. Lee legacy

  Abraham Lincoln -  Frederick Douglass –  Robert E. Lee  Hiram Revels – first African American to serve in U.S. Senate  Blanche K. Bruce – first A.A. elected to a full six-year term in U.S. Senate Important People