• Content Objective: SWBAT
explain reconstruction why was
needed.
• Language Objective: SWBAT
state the significance of
Lincoln, Lee, and Douglass.
RECONSTRUCTION
“Post Civil War”
1865 -1877
What is it??
– The
reorganization and rebuilding
of the former Confederate
States after the Civil War.
What were the 4 key issues
1) What to do with secessionists
– Punish or welcome back
2) How to re-build the south
– Plantations and farms destroyed . Towns
and homes were burned to the ground
– http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilwar/index.php?section=Resources&page=econ
3) How to work together and act as one country
More Key Issues
4) How to help the newly freed slaves
They needed: Education, land,
money, laws to protect their
freedom
• ** All of these problems needed
solutions during Reconstruction!!
Key People/Ideologies
• His Reconstruction plan was
reconciliation (**which means to
agree and come together**)
• He was willing to grant amnesty,
“Saving the union was more
important than punishing the
South”
Key People/ Ideologies
• Also wanted to reconcile with
the North. “We must reunite as
Americans”, even though many
still wanted to fight
• Became president of
Washington College, which is
now known as Washington and
Lee University
Key People/Ideologies
• Fought for the adoption of
Constitutional amendments
that guaranteed voting
rights for African Americans
• Was a powerful voice for
human rights and civil
liberties
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 (13th, 14th, 15th).
• Language Objectives:
– SWBAT read and summarize the basic idea
of each amendment.
– SWBAT choose method to demonstrate
knowledge of Reconstruction
Amendments: drawing, analyzing change,
or application.
Reconstruction Amendments
• 13th
Amendment
(1865) – banned
slavery in the
United States
and all of it’s
territories
Reconstruction Amendments
• 14th Amendment (1866) – grants citizenship
to all persons born in the United States and
guarantees them equal protection under the
law.
3 Key
Reconstruction
Amendments
• 15th Amendment
(1869) – ensures all
citizens the right to
vote regardless of
race, color, or
previous condition
of servitude
Amendment Summary
• These three amendments
th
th
th
(13 , 14 , and 15 ) 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.
Reconstruction Policies/Problems
• African Americans could hold public office for
the first time
• Former southern military leaders could not
hold office
• Northern soldiers supervised the south
Reconstruction Policies/Problems
• Southerners
resented
Northern
Carpetbaggers
who took
advantage of
the south after
the civil war
Political Cartoon:
What do you see?
What do you have
questions about?
What do you think it
means?
Reconstruction policies/Problems
• Black Codes (1865-1866)
– Laws passed by the Southern states to limit the
economic and physical freedom of the former
slaves.
Reconstruction policies/Problems
“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
http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/blackcodes/video-origins-black-codes
Reconstruction policies/Problems
• Established Freedman’s Bureau in March 1865
• A government agency created to help the former
slaves
– Distributed food, clothing and medical services
– Established schools and provided teachers
– Aided the construction of African American
Universities
– Distributed land for farming and sharecropping
– Provided help with employment, transportation and
fair wages
Reconstruction Policies/Problems
• Civil Rights Act of 1866
-Granted equal rights and full citizenship to
African Americans
-Authorized the use of federal troops to
enforce equal rights
** Made the Black Codes illegal**
Reconstruction Declines
• Content Objective: Discover the impact of the
Jim Crow Laws
• Language Objective: Explain the importance of
the Election of 1876.
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 1877.
*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
Safari Montage Video
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
http://www.amistadresource.org/plantation_to_ghetto/jim_crow.html
• Discrimination – treating someone unfairly because
of their race, gender, religion, place of birth, age, etc.
Try to Vote Activity
Voting Restrictions
Poll Tax
• A fee you had to pay
before you could vote
Literacy Tests
• Had to read difficult
paragraphs or documents
Grandfather Clause- allowed individuals who did
not pass the literacy test to vote if their fathers
or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction
• Content Objective: Compare and contrast
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois
• Language Objective: Explain the positions of
Washington and Dubois on achieving African
American equality.
African American Response to Jim Crow
(2 opposing views)
• Booker T. Washington
1. Was born a slave, who had
taught himself to read
2. Wanted to achieve equality
patiently, by gaining
economic power.
3. Believed gaining skills and
education was the key to
equality
4. Founded Tuskegee Normal
and Industrial Institute
(Tuskegee University today)
African American Response to Jim Crow
(2 opposing views)
• W.E.B. Dubois
1. First African American to
receive a PhD from Harvard
2. Demanded for the right to
vote as a way to end
segregation.
3. Believed protest was the key
to equality
4. One of the founders of the
NAACP