Reconstruction
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Unit Org. and Note packet p. 1
Reconstruction Vocabulary
Who ARE YOU in class project
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Reconstruction
History of US: What is Freedom?
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Reconstruction Period
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What was “Reconstruction”?
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South was devastated
and bitter.
“Good Ol’ Rebel Soldier”
(Unreconstructed Rebel)
Song
•Attempted to give
meaning to the freedom
that the former slaves
had achieved.
The re-building of the Union
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(and the South in particular)
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2 billion worth
today $ 30 billion
What does it mean to
Reconcile?
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Reconcile to bring into agreement or
harmony.
Reconcile to come together, forgiving and
forgetting the past. .
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WHO ARE YOU:
Activity #1 and #2
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Who are you?
Put your self in another’s place.
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3 Reconstruction Plans: Attempt
to Unite the Union and solve
these problems
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POLITICAL Political
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SOCIAL Social
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Associated with “politics”
Involves government, public office, rights, laws, etc.
Associated with “society”
Involves race, gender, age and other ways of grouping
people
ECONOMIC ECONOMIC
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Associated with the “economy”
Involves money, business, trade, jobs, etc.
President Lincoln’s Plan Reconciliation:
Lenient /Forgiveness
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Lincoln Plan clip
The BASICS:
 10% Plan When 10% of the voting population of each state had
taken an oath of loyalty and established a government, it would be
recognized in the union again.
 Pardon (forgive)to all but the highest ranking military and civilian
Confederate officers.
Preservation of the Union was more
important than punishing the South
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Congress Plan-Wade Davis
Bill: Punishment
The Basics
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Required 50% vs. 10% “iron clad” oath
of allegiance (swearing they had never
voluntarily aided the rebellion ).
Former Confederates could not hold
public office
Wanted full rights for freedmen
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Robert E. Lee supported
Lincoln
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Surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse in
Virginia on April 9, 1865.
Lee: urged Southerners to reconcile and
reunite with Northerners as Americans
even though some still wanted to fight.
Lee later become president of Washington
College. Today: Washington and Lee
University.
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On April 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln was shot
On April 15th he died
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President
The Basics:
Andrew Johnson’s Plan
(10%+)
Amnesty(forgiveness) with simple oath to
all except:
Confederate military officers (no Vote)
State Constitutions, no slavery, no
secession (leaving union)
Pardoned planters
You Tube J Plan
Tennessee
Plan Clip
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Reconstruction: The Second
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WHO ARE YOU:
Activity #3
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Who are you? Find
the plan that matchs
you.
Does the plan help
or hurt you
Politically, Socially
and Economically?
What plan is just
and fair for you?
just behavior or
treatment.
"a concern for justice,
peace, and genuine
respect for people“
Synonyms:
Fair
Equal
Honest
Objective
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Historical Perspectives
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POLITICAL Political
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SOCIAL Social
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Associated with “politics”
Involves government, public office, rights, laws, etc.
Associated with “society”
Involves race, gender, age and other ways of grouping
people
ECONOMIC ECONOMIC
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Associated with the “economy”
Involves money, business, trade, jobs, etc.
South Reacts to
Reconstruction’s 13th
Amendment
:
Black
Codes
 Purpose: control daily life
1865
of freedman
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Keep them on the plantations for
labor
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Only jobs: farmer
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Same old treatment.
 Forced many blacks to
become sharecroppers
[tenant farmers].
Economic Slavery
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Social
Sharecropping: Renting
land
to farm, payment share of your crops.
SOCIAL
Sharecroppers
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Economic
The sharecropper rents
a piece of land from
the landowner. This
rent includes a shack,
seeds and farming
tools. The
sharecropper promises
to give the landowner
a percentage of the
crops.
Another portion of the
crop is sold to pay rent
to the landowner for the
next season.
Farming
experiential
Activity
The sharecropper plants
and harvest the crops
Some of the remaining
crops feed the
sharecropper’s family.
Rarely, there are
enough crops to sell for
profit.
The sharecropper gives
the landowner the
amount of crops agreed
upon.
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Corn, wheat,
fruits, pecans
and peanuts
Civil Rights Act of 1866
is passed:
Nullifies/Voids Black
Codes/Laws
Full citizenship to
African Americans,
federal gov’t would
protect
 Authorized use of
federal troops to
enforce
the CRA 1866
South needed more of a
push to rejoin the Union
and follow the
Reconstruction rules
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Social
Northern Soldiers supervised the South
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Estimated size Today: There are
over a hundred different
chapters in the various Klan
organizations, with varying
memberships. Overall, there
may be as many as 5,000
members and associates of the
Ku Klux Klan. The Klan is
strongest in the South and in
the Midwest. Monitored by FBI
for hate crimes and civil rights
violations.
South Reacts to Civil Rights Act of
1866
and Federal Troops:
Ku Klux Klan: Founded in Pulaski,
Tennessee
by 6 rebels
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It was the most powerful secret
society in the South…
continuing the “Fight”
•Their members threatened,
beat, and even killed AfricanAmericans
•Burned schools, churches in
night raids
Social
•Disrupted elections: 100,000
more black voters than white
Political
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4c Enrichment
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Political
Economic
1865
flashcards
Change to the
Constitution
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A History of US: What is
Freedom?
1870
1868
CREATED BY
Congress to
help with
Reconstruction
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Freedom A
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What is
Freedom? chap.
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RECONSTRUCTION RESULTED IN
FREE 13TH AMENDMENT
CITIZENS 14TH AMENDMENT
VOTE 15TH AMENDMENT
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POLITICAL
WHO ARE YOU:
Activity #4
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Reconstruction
Resulted In…
FREE CITIZENS
VOTE
And SCREAM
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Forgiveness is Long Gone
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By late December of 1865,
the Reconstruction debate
has unfolded into three
separate plans. The WadeDavis Bill has been vetoed
by President Lincoln. The
Southern representatives
elected under the Lincoln
and Johnson Plans have just
arrived in Washington, but
are not allowed to take their
seats.
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November 1866 –
Radical Republicans win
sweeping victories in
Congress and State
Elections.
March 1867 - A Radical
Congress passes the
first of four major
Reconstruction Acts,
imposing military rule
and radical
reconstruction on a
defiant/angry South.
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Soldiers from the North supervised the South.
Policies
and
Problems
of
Carpetbaggers from the North take control of
Southern politics and business, leading to
resentment from the Southerners.
Rights for African Americans were gained as a
result of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which also
authorized the use of federal troops to enforce it.
Establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau to aid
Reconstruction former enslaved African Americans in the South.
What to
Scream
about!
African Americans could hold public office in the
South.
Military leaders of the Confederacy could not
hold office.
WHO ARE YOU:
Activity #5 and #6
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Positive or Negative?
Social, Political or Economic?
Opportunity to Scream at President
Johnson
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 Policies: government
guidelines
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Reconstruction Policies Gov’t Guidelines
and Problems
Political
Political Office
SOCIAL
Southern military leaders could not
hold office
African Americans could hold
public office or political positions
Robert E.
Lee
In 1872 there were 7 African-Americans in Congress
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Carpetbaggers
“businessmen and
politicians” and Scalawags
ECONOMIC
Carpetbagger
a Southerner who helped
the Northerners and the
Republican Party after the
war.
Men from the North
that came to the
South after the Civil
War to make money
from the people of
the South…
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Scalawag
Reconstruction Policies and
Problems continued
Political
SOCIAL
African-Americans gained
equal rights with the Civil
Rights Act of 1866…which
authorized the use of Federal
troops for enforcement.
Northern federal soldiers
supervised the South
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Freedman’s Bureau
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SOCIAL
Started schools for former slaves
Help get freedmen fair wages
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A Political Crisis: The
“Compromise” of 1877 Ends Radical
Republican Reconstruction
Ends Reconstruction: Who Killed Reconstruction Notes
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Reconstruction ended in
1877 as a result of a
compromise over the
outcome of the election
of 1876.
Democrats supported
Rutherford B. Hayes’
election as President and
Republicans ended the
military occupation of
the South
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WHO ARE YOU:
Activity #7
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Make it opposite
What would change?
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What is
Racial
Segregation
Social
The separation of
African Americans
and whites in public
places
Based upon race
Directed primarily
against African
Americans…
but other groups also
were kept
segregated: exNative Americans
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The South accomplished this by passing
the Jim Crow Laws:
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Separated African-Americans and whites
in public places. These laws
legalized segregation in the South.
Racial Segregation violated:
The 14th Amendment
Social
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In which
geographical
area were
Jim Crow
Laws
enforced
Social
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What would be an example of a Jim Crow Law?
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Buses All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor
transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space
and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races.
Alabama
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Railroads The conductor of each passenger train is authorized and
required to assign each passenger to the car or the division of the
car, when it is divided by a partition, designated for the race to which
such passenger belongs. Alabama
Restaurants It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other
place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored
people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored
persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from
the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a
separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment.
Alabama
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Education The schools for white children and the schools for negro
children shall be conducted separately. Florida
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What was the “Jim Crow Era”?
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The period (late 1800s
to mid-1960s) when
the Southern states
required racial
segregation in public
schools, transportation
and other public
facilities.
Social
What political rights did AfricanAmericans lose during the
“Jim Crow Era”?
The right to vote
The right to serve on juries
Made discrimination practices
legal in many communities
and states
Were characterized by
unequal opportunities in
housing…
Unequal in Work… Education
and Government
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Racial Segregation set in concrete at the
Federal level: with Plessy vs. Ferguson
supreme court case:
It made “Separate but Equal” ok and legal.
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All passenger stations in this
state operated by any motor
transportation company shall
have separate waiting rooms
or space and separate ticket
windows for the white and
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colored races.
The conductor of each
passenger train is authorized
and required to assign each
passenger to the car or the
division of the car, when it is
divided by a partition,
designated for the race to which
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b, c
such
belongs.
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Trailblazers
DVD
African American
Leaders Respond and
fight for rights.
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Social
Leaders in the fight for Equality:History Channel
Clip
Frederick Douglass: Biography Link
Human Rights fighter.
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After the War, he fought
for constitutional
amendments that
guaranteed the voting
rights of women and
African Americans alike.
As a former slave he
believed it was important
to have civil liberties
(rights and freedoms)
as an American Citizen.
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Frederick Douglass would
continue his active
involvement to better the
lives of African
Americans.
He was a visionary link
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Booker T.
(training, Tuskegee)
Washington:
Economic Equality “Learn a Trade or Skill and
turn it into money and freedom”
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Believed equality can be achieved through vocational
education (BOOK) aka Job training.
…and accepted social separation the segregation of black
from white.
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W.E.B. Du Bois-
d’bois and d’girls full freedom
He was a writer and educator. Co-Founder of NAACP.
He believed in full equality for African
Americans… Political, Economic, Social and
Civil rights.
Believed in Integration-No separation of black and
white
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Compare and Contrast
Critical Thinking Activity
Use Readings (if time) and Sort for organizers
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Booker T.
Washington
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WEB
Dubois
Smart board Sort
and organizer
 Compare and
Contrast Sort
Notes
 GALLERY WALK
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Activity
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So what?
What is important to understand
about this?
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Reconstruction
Resulted In…
FREE CITIZENS
VOTE
And SCREAM
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Reconstruction attempted to give
meaning to the freedom that the former
slaves had achieved and rebuilt
the South.
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After the Civil War, African-Americans still
faced discrimination and segregation and
continued to strive for equality
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How much
do you
remember?
Reconstruction: The Second Civil WarRetreat
Key People Notes
Road Through Reconstruction
Act Out
John Green Crash Course
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3. The 14th Amendment declared
that…
a.
b.
c.
d.
Segregation was legal in the U.S
All people born in the United States
are to receive equal treatment under
the law
No citizen should be denied the right
to vote because of race or color
No citizen should be denied the right
to vote because of religion
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Explain or
describe
this
cartoon
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American
Indians
were not
considered
citizens
until 1924.
7. After the Civil War, freedmen
most likely became…
a.
sailors.
b.
plantation owners.
c.
industrial workers.
d.
sharecroppers.
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2. The main purpose of the “Jim
Crow” laws was to…
a.
Encourage the growth of blackowned businesses
b.
Encourage boycotts
c.
Separate blacks and whites
d.
Encourage black and white citizens to
help each other
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4. “Jim Crow” laws were designed
to discriminate based on…
a.
Gender
b.
Race
c.
Religion
d.
Education
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