1. Reconstruction
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2. Agenda Weekly Warmup Worksheet Reconstruction PowerPoint with Notes
“Life in the West” Matrices (groups)
Group presentations on DocCam
Exit Ticket

3. Warmup What do you remember learning about Reconstruction?
Who was affected by it?
Voices of Former Slaves

4. Reconstruct What?
To “rebuild”, “re-construct”, & “re-admit” the South back into the Union after the Civil War.
-Black Southerners – homeless and jobless
-Plantation Owners – lost $3 billion worth of labor
-Poor Whites – had to compete with free African-Americans for jobs

5. Political Cartoon “fake” Secretary of War Lorenzo Thomas Office Bill
Ulysses S. Grant
President Andrew Johnson
Congress
Secretary of War
Edwin Stanton

6. Meaning Cannon = represents Congress
President Johnson = hiding behind Lorenzo Thomas (appointed Secretary of War after Johnson removed Stanton from office)
The “Office Bill” = also called the “Tenure of Office Bill”, required the President to seek the Senate’s advice before dismissing any member of his Cabinet
Congress impeached Andrew Johnson because of his radical views on leniency for white Southerners and instituting Black Codes

7. Political Cartoon
Carpetbagger
Union soldier
“The Solid South”

8. Political Cartoon
Carpet Bag = also called a carpetbagger, a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War.
White Southerners were afraid that carpetbaggers would loot and destroy the war-torn South
Woman = represents The South
Soldiers = Union soldiers are helping hold up the bad as a way of “supporting” the mass movement of Northerners to the South

9. Carpetbaggers and scalawags

10. Key Reconstruction Amendments
13th Amendment = abolition of slavery
14th Amendment = gives citizenship to all people born in the United States
This included the freed slaves
15th Amendment = gave African American men the right to vote
Note = even though these Amendments were passed, the South established poll taxes, literacy tests, and segregation laws to prevent African Americans from voting and enjoying other freedoms

11. Political Cartoon KKK “The Union As It Was” White League
“Worse Than Slavery” caption
Former slaves

12. Political Cartoon
White League = white paramilitary organization created to intimidate freedmen from voting and other political activities
Family = freed slaves
Caption = “Worse than Slavery” refers to the Black Codes which were laws passed in the South to restrict African Americans’ freedom and to force them to work as sharecroppers
KKK member = the Ku Klux Klan, started in the 1860s, wanted to overthrow the Republican state governments in the South as well as to intimidate African Americans using violence and fear

13. Political Cartoon Background images
Hanging man = lynching of African Americans was common in the South as a means of frightening them into submission and to prevent them from exercising their newfound freedoms
School House sign = the school is burning
Children’s book of letters = although African Americans were now able to go to school to learn how to read, nobody is actually reading the book
The Eagle = “The Union As It Was. This is a White Man’s Government”
Handshake = “The Lost Cause”

14. Extras
Crash Course: Reconstruction

15. Activity We are moving on to the settlement of the American West
You will read through the lives of different groups of people who settled out west
Move around to the different stations to fill in your matrices in whichever order you choose