Content Objective: SWBAT explain reconstruction why was needed. Language Objective: SWBAT state the significance of Lincoln, Lee, and Douglass.

RECONSTRUCTION “Post Civil War”

What is Reconstruction?

4 Key Issues Reconstruction Needed to Solve 1) What should we do with secessionists – people who wanted two separate countries? – Punish or welcome back? 2) How should we re-build the South? – Plantations and farms were destroyed. – Towns and homes were burned to the ground

More Key Issues 3) How can we work together and act as one country? 4) How can we help the newly freed slaves? – Freedmen needed: Education, land, money, laws to protect their freedom ** All of these problems needed solutions during Reconstruction!!

Frederick Douglass He fought for the adoption of Constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights for African Americans He was a powerful voice for human rights and civil liberties

Robert E. Lee He was a former Confederate General He wanted to reconcile with the North. “We must reunite as Americans”, even though many people still wanted to fight He became president of Washington College, which is now known as Washington and Lee University

Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address

Abraham Lincoln His Reconstruction plan was reconciliation - to agree and come together. He was willing to grant amnesty- an official pardon. “Saving the union was more important than punishing the South.” 10% Plan – If 10% of the Southern state’s citizens voted to, they could re-enter the U.S. Not everyone agreed with Lincoln

Lincoln’s Assassination

Warm Up: We will look at two maps. Write down: – What is each showing? (Look at the titles) – 1 fact about each map.

Content Objective: SWBAT describe the main ideas behind the Reconstruction Amendments (13 th, 14 th, 15 th ). Language Objectives: – SWBAT choose method to demonstrate knowledge of Reconstruction Amendments: drawing, analyzing change, or application.

Reconstruction Amendments 13 th Amendment (1865) – banned slavery in the United States and all of its territories

Reconstruction Amendments 14 th Amendment (1866) – grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States and guarantees them equal protection under the law.

3 Key 15 th Amendment (1869) – ensures all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude Reconstruction Amendments

Amendment Summary These three amendments (13 th, 14 th, and 15 th ) guarantee equal protection under the law for all citizens Who still doesn’t have the right to vote? – Women

Content Objective: SWBAT compare Black Codes to Slavery Language Objective: SWBAT explain major policies of Reconstruction and their effects.

Andrew Johnson

Black Codes ( ) – Laws passed by the Southern states to limit the economic and physical freedom of the former slaves. “trampled the rights of African Americans” Could be arrested and imprisoned for being unemployed Banned from owning/renting farms Illegal for a farmworker to walk beside a railroad Illegal to speak loudly in the company of white women Illegal to sell products of your farm after dark

Black Codes ( ) Complete Venn Diagram on back of page #26

Radical Republicans

Sharecropping Handout

Radical Republicans

Racism

Radical Republicans

Reconstruction Declines Content Objective: Discover the impact of the Jim Crow Laws Language Objective: Explain the importance of the Election of 1876.

Carpetbaggers – individuals who moved from the North to the South to make a profit after the Civil War Southerners resented them Groups That Cause Tension

Scalawags – Southerners who cooperated with the new governments the North helped create. Former Confederates resented them Groups That Cause Tension

Reconstruction Declines

Election of 1876  The election of 1876 was so corrupt, that neither side knew for sure who won.  Hayes (North) vs. Tilden (South)

Election of 1876  The election results were decided in the Compromise of *Reconstruction ended in 1877 as a result of the Compromise to decide the outcome of the election of 1876*

Compromise of 1877 was a result of the disputed 1876 Presidential election results NORTH promised to: 1.give more aid ($) to the South 2.withdraw all of the remaining federal troops 3.Let Southerners handle the Race issue SOUTH promised to: 1.Maintain all African American Rights 2.recognize Hayes as the next President of the United States

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Objectives Content Objective: Compare and contrast Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois Language Objective: Explain the effects of the Jim Crow Laws.

Jim Crow Laws Made segregation in the South legal Was upheld in infamous court case – Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) –ruled that separate but equal was ok. – Included restaurants, bathrooms, schools, churches, and even public transportation – Increased violence against African Americans and many rights gained during Reconstruction were lost

Jim Crow Segregation Discrimination – treating someone unfairly because of their race, gender, religion, place of birth, age, etc.

Voting Restrictions Fee you had to pay before you could vote Poll Tax Had to read difficult paragraphs or documents and answer questions before you could vote Literacy Tests

African American Response to Jim Crow (2 opposing views)