1. Warm up Write the first ten Presidents in order. 1. George Washington (1789-1797) 2. John Adams (1797-1801) 3. Thomas Jefferson (1801-1805) 4. James Madison (1809-1817) 5. James Monroe (1817-1825) 6. John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) 7. Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) 8. Martin Van Buren (1837-1841) 9. William Henry Harrison (1841) 10. John Tyler (1841-1845)

2. Reconstruction 1867-1877

3. In your own words describe what you think Reconstruction was.

4. Characteristics of the Reconstruction Era End of the Civil War 13 th, 14 th and 15 th amendment Allowing the South in the Union Radical Reconstruction Andrew Johnson Sharecropping Carpetbaggers and Scalawags

5. Difficult post Civil War Questions: 1.Should the slaveholders be punished or forgiven? 2. What rights should be granted to free African- Americans 3. How could the war torn nation be brought back together?

8. Black Codes http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another- name/themes/black-codes/ http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another- name/themes/black-codes/ Write YOUR definition of the Black Codes.

9. Warm-Up : Define the following. Amnesty Act Jim Crow Laws Poll Tax Scalawags Carpetbaggers

10. Freedman’s Bureau http://youtu.be/I_iKCXE8MaY Write your definition of the Freedmen’s Bureau.

11. Ku Klux Klan http://www.history.com/videos/the-kkk Write your definition of the Ku Klux Klan.

14. Copy these notes in your journal. Morrill Act 1862 was also known as the Land Grant College Act. major boost to higher education in America. The grant was originally set up to establish colleges. Hiram Revels 1 st African American Senator

15. Civil War Amendments http://education- portal.com/academy/lesson/the- reconstruction-amendments-the-13th-14th- and-15th-amendments.html http://education- portal.com/academy/lesson/the- reconstruction-amendments-the-13th-14th- and-15th-amendments.html

16. http://youtu.be/PmjsOiI7Xes http://youtu.be/PmjsOiI7Xes History Channel: Reconstruction List 25 facts that we have learned from the Civil War and Reconstruction.

17. You have been a slave all your life and have just received your freedom. Record five days of journal entries describing your new life in the South. Year: 1866 Location: South Carolina Family: Married with Two Children Make sure to include: Black codes, sharecropping, confederacy, cash crop, poll tax, literacy test, segregation, lynching, Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Compromise of 1850, Nullification Crisis, the 13 th, 14 th, & 15 th Amendments, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Freedman's Bureau, KKK, Emancipation Proclamation.