1. Rebuilding the Past
I want you to think back to a time when you tried to put something back together. How did it break in the first place? I want you to explain what did you fix it so that it worked like it did before maybe better, or if it was a lost cause from the beginning.

2. Putting things back together
Look at how the war ended
Breakdown what the losses looked like
Start looking at GA’s reconstruction
Look at the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
Test Friday over SS8H6

3. Appomattox and the End
In April of 1865 the Union and Confederate forces were starting to really deplete
The Confederate forces were winning small battles and Union were winning large ones
Grant and Lee met in Appomattox Virginia where Lee was surrounded
Lee surrendered at the courthouse on April 9, 1865 ending the Civil War
Six days later Lincoln was Assassinated making Andrew Johnson President

4. Total Losses
There were over 750,000 reported deaths in the Civil War. One in four Soldiers that left home never came back
Union Losses
Lost over 140,000 in combat alone
Disease claimed another 220,000
Roughly5% of the eligible male pop of North
Confederate Losses
Lost over 75,000 in combat alone
Disease claimed another 220,000 also
20% of male pop

5. Georgia’s Reconstruction
Reconstruction lasted about seven years in this country ( )
Sherman’s March really crippled the way Georgian’s lived their lives
Over 40,000 Georgians were either killed, wounded or lost a good chunk of their land
Georgia had to reset militarily, politically, and economically
US tried three phases to reconstruct after Civil War

6. 13th Amendment
Part of phase one which was Presidential Reconstruction by Johnson
10% of the Southern male population had to swear an oath to the Union
Officially ended slavery in the United States
Georgia was readmitted into the union temporarily in 1865

7. 14th Amendment Alexander Stephens was made Senator
As a former CSA vice president the Radical Republicans in congress hated them
Northern senators were mad at how the south treated blacks
Blacks were made citizens with all the rights of white citizens
Congressional Reconstruction forced Southern states to fall in line and ratify the 13th and 14th under duress

8. 15th Amendment
Groups like the KKK developed to protest the rights of Blacks
Military Reconstruction was a plan to use Union troops to make sure things happened, also a reorganization
Gave black men the right to vote
Georgia was officially readmitted in the Union in after being forced

9. 16th Amendment
Instead of it being about an Income Tax I want you to create a new one
On the rest of page 43 in your notebook I want you to describe what would be your 16th amendment would be
In light of what you heard about the 13th, 14th, and 15th what would yours be about and explain it