1. What were some of the causes of the Civil War? 2. What advantages did the North have at the start of the war? 3. Why were Gettysburg and Vicksburg important battles? 4. How did President Lincoln solve the issue of slavery? 5. What was the goal of each of the following Reconstruction Plans? Lincoln’s Johnson’s Radical Republicans (Congress) 6. Which 3 amendments were passed during Reconstruction? What did they do?
Objective: Students will understand the effects of the Civil War and the rebuilding of the Union.
Towns, Land, Economy of the South destroyed Public Works programs established to rebuild the South
Scalawags- White southern Republicans, who supported Reconstruction Carpetbaggers- Northerners who moved South to take advantage of Southern misfortune African-American men voted although they faced extreme hardships; few became elected officials
Black Senate & House Delegates
African-Americans moved to new locations African-Americans reunited with families and were married African-Americans sought education Churches and Schools for former slaves were key institutions Separate institutions for whites and blacks
Cotton was no longer king; tobacco products were produced Former slave relied on sharecropping- living & working the land for a portion of the crops Few saved enough for tenant farming
Ku Klux Klan- group of white Southerners who terrorized African Americans Aimed attacks at symbols of black freedom- teachers, schools, churches, voting places Jim Crow Laws- restricted freedoms of blacks; kept them from getting political, economic or social power – segregation of all public places
Example of a Jim Crow Law
Plessy v. Ferguson- court case that said separate but equal is legal Redeemers- white Southerners who wanted to “redeem” the South by regaining power in Congress
Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President and agrees to remove federal troops from the South RECONSTRUCTION IS OVER!!!
Positive Effects of ReconstructionNegative Effects of Reconstruction
Take out your homework chart. Describe the activities of the KKK after the Civil War. Give an example of a Jim Crow law. Describe the sharecropping cycle of poverty. How did the Election of 1877 lead to the end of Reconstruction?
Directions: With a partner, choose one event discussed over the last two days concerning the period of Reconstruction ( ) and create a movie poster. Your movie poster must include the following: – Title that references the event, dramatically – Illustration (s) that show the main action related to the event – Short blurb in “quotes” that identify the significance of the event. – A 1-5 star rating by your movie reviewer that shows the impact of the event. (1 being less significant, 5 being most) – Posters must be neat and colorful.