Organization After each test, please move your notebook materials from Current Unit to Previous Units. Keep the pages in order, you will just keep adding to them. The new golden cover page should be the first page of your Current Unit.

Civil War Summary http://www.civilwar.org/education/in4/the-war-between-the-states.html

RECONSTRUCTION “Post Civil War” 1865 -1877

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

4 Key Issues Reconstruction Needed to Solve 1) What should we do with secessionists – people who wanted two separate countries? Punish or welcome back? 2) How should we re-build the South? Plantations and farms were destroyed. Towns and homes were burned to the ground http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilwar/index.php?section=Resources&page=econ

More Key Issues 3) How can we work together and act as one country? 4) How can we help the newly freed slaves? Freedmen needed: Education, land, money, laws to protect their freedom ** All of these problems needed solutions during Reconstruction!!

Reconstruction Amendments 13th Amendment (1865) – banned slavery in the United States and all of its territories

Reconstruction Amendments 14th Amendment (1868) – grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States and guarantees them equal protection under the law.

Reconstruction Amendments 3 Key Reconstruction Amendments 15th Amendment (1870) – ensures all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Who still doesn’t have the right to vote? 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

Reconstruction Declines Content Objective: SWBAT discover the impact of ending Reconstruction. Language Objective: SWBAT explain the importance of the Election of 1876.

Reconstruction Declines

Election of 1876 Hayes (North) vs. Tilden (South) 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: SOUTH promised to: give more aid ($) to the South withdraw all of the remaining federal troops Let Southerners handle the Race issue Maintain all African American Rights recognize Hayes as the next President of the United States

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. https://youtu.be/FgG6LPnkfto 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 Discrimination – treating someone unfairly because of their race, gender, religion, place of birth, age, etc. http://www.amistadresource.org/plantation_to_ghetto/jim_crow.html

Voting Restrictions Poll Tax Literacy Tests Fee you had to pay before you could vote Poll Tax Had to read difficult paragraphs or documents and answer questions before you could vote Literacy Tests Grandfather Clause- allowed individuals who did not pass the literacy test to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction

Objectives Content Objective: SWBAT compare and contrast Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois Language Objective: SWBAT explain the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois Jim Crow Handout Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois http://www.amistadresource.org/plantation_to_ghetto/jim_crow.html

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)

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 http://youtu.be/Z2G78qYqpq4

Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Dubois Both

Objectives: Content: SWBAT analyze 6 biographies to evaluate individual’s feelings on the major events of Reconstruction (laws, amendments, etc). Learning: SWBAT choose one Reconstruction event for each individual and explain why they would feel strongly about it.

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