1. Bellringer
Which statement most accurately describes President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction after the Civil War?
A. Southerners should be made to pay for their rebellion.
B. The Union should be restored as quickly as possible.
C. African Americans should be given free land.
D. War damages should be collected through military occupation.

2. Standards
B.3.c. Describe the basic provisions and immediate impact of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution
B.3.e. Analyze the immediate and long-term influences of Reconstruction on the lives of African Americans and U.S. society as a whole
Learning Targets
I can identify the significance of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
I can evaluate the successes and failures of various Reconstruction policies.
Essential Question
Assess the success or failure of Reconstruction policies.

3. Looking at Political Cartoons
Political cartoons express the cartoonist’s opinion on a current issue through images and words.
Political cartoons use some or all of the following artistic devices:
important people
symbols
exaggerated details
labels that identify parts of the cartoon
voice or thought bubbles
a caption

4. Analyzing a Political Cartoon
voice or thought bubble
important person
caption
labels that identify parts of the cartoon
symbol
Do a timed, pair, share for students to pick out the parts of a political cartoon. All the questions are on the students notes.
caption
Use reading to help analyze the cartoon
exaggerated detail

5. Answer the rest of questions
What other examples of the six artistic devices can you identify in this cartoon?
What do you think is the cartoonist’s message?
How does the cartoonist use artistic devices to communicate his message?
This cartoon shows Lincoln and Johnson trying to repair a torn map of the United States, representing the division created during the Civil War. Lincoln, once a rail splitter, is using a rail to push the North and South closer to one another. Johnson, once a tailor, is using a needle and thread to stitch together the two sides.

6. Analyzing a Political Cartoon
You and your partner will work together to complete the three other cartoons
1. What artistic devices can you identify in this cartoon? Match each letter to a device.
important people
symbols
exaggerated details
labels that identify parts of the cartoon
voice or thought bubbles
a caption
2. What other examples of the six artistic devices can you identify in this cartoon?
3. What do you think is the cartoonist’s message?
4. How does the cartoonist use artistic devices to communicate his message?
Maybe divide up for general and then go over as a group at the end

9. Don’t forget to get the definitions
Thirteenth Amendment 
Freedmen’s Bureau 
black codes 
Radical Republican 
Fourteenth Amendment 
Fifteenth Amendment
Ku Klux Klan 
Jim Crow laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
All definitions are in the reading

10. Go over political cartoons
If you feel like students need help

11. Exit Slip Write a thesis statement answering the following question
Assess the success or failure of Reconstruction policies