Content Objective: SWBAT explain reconstruction why was needed.

• 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??• Reconstruction – The

reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate States after the Civil War.

What were the 4 key issues1) 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 Issues4) 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

• 15th Amendment (1869) – ensures all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Reconstruction Amendments

Amendment Summary

• These three amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th) 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

• Southerners resented Northern Carpetbaggers who took advantage of the south after the civil war

Reconstruction Policies/Problems

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/black-codes/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 1876The election of 1876

was so corrupt, that neither side knew for sure who won.Hayes (North) vs.

Tilden (South)

Election of 1876The 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 1877was 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 segregationhttp://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• A fee you had to pay

before you could votePoll Tax

• Had to read difficult paragraphs or documents

Literacy Tests

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. Washington1. Was born a slave, who had

taught himself to read2. 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. Dubois1. First African American to

receive a PhD from Harvard2. 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