Content Objective: SWBAT explain reconstruction why was needed.

1. Content Objective: SWBAT explain reconstruction why was needed. Language Objective: SWBAT state the significance of Lincoln, Lee, and Douglass.

2. RECONSTRUCTION “Post Civil War” 1865 -1877

3. What is it?? • Reconstruction – The reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate States after the Civil War.

5. 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

6. 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!!

7. 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”

8. 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

9. 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

11. Warm Up: • We will look at two maps. • Write down: • What is each showing? (Look at the titles) • 1 fact about each map.

14. 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.

15. Reconstruction Amendments • 13th Amendment (1865) – banned slavery in the United States and all of it’s territories

16. Reconstruction Amendments • 14th Amendment (1866) – grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States and guarantees them equal protection under the law.

17. 3 Key • Reconstruction Amendments • 15th Amendment (1869) – ensures all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

18. 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

20. Content Objective: SWBAT compare Black Codes to Slavery • Language Objective: SWBAT explain major policies of Reconstruction and their effects.

21. 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

22. Reconstruction Policies/Problems • Southerners resented Northern Carpetbaggers who took advantage of the south after the civil war

23. Political Cartoon: What do you see? What do you have questions about? What do you think it means?

24. Reconstruction policies/Problems • Black Codes (1865-1866) • Laws passed by the Southern states to limit the economic and physical freedom of the former slaves.

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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**

29. Reconstruction Declines • Content Objective: Discover the impact of the Jim Crow Laws • Language Objective: Explain the importance of the Election of 1876.

30. Election of 1876 • The election of 1876 was so corrupt, that neither side knew for sure who won. • Hayes (North) vs. Tilden (South)

31. 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*

32. Compromise of 1877was a result of the disputed 1876 Presidential election results North promised to: South promised to: Maintain all African American Rights recognize Hayes as the next President of the United States • give more aid ($) to the South • withdraw all of the remaining federal troops • Let Southerners handle the Race issue

33. Safari Montage Video

34. 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

35. 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.

36. Try to Vote Activity

37. Voting Restrictions

38. 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.

39. African American Response to Jim Crow(2 opposing views) • Booker T. Washington • Was born a slave, who had taught himself to read • Wanted to achieve equality patiently, by gaining economic power. • Believed gaining skills and education was the key to equality • Founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (Tuskegee University today)

40. African American Response to Jim Crow(2 opposing views) • W.E.B. Dubois • First African American to receive a PhD from Harvard • Demanded for the right to vote as a way to end segregation. • Believed protest was the key to equality • One of the founders of the NAACP