Warm Up # 5 What is the difference between discipline and punishment? Do either of these words apply to a relationship of equals?
Reconstruction Report Cards
Reconstruction Report Cards Handout pg. 14 Work in table groups to complete For each issue, you will have 4 minutes to read and discuss with your group Pencils down during this time, this is just discussion (unless you’re highlighting info) You will then have 3 minutes to write your grades and explanations. Classroom discussion after each issue.
Reconstruction Report Cards – Review Make Cards Front and back Radical Republicans President Johnson When a statement is read you will hold up the card showing the correct answer
Confiscate plantations and divide land amongst freedmen Radical Republicans or President Johnson Issue: What should be done to the South? Confiscate plantations and divide land amongst freedmen Radical Republican
Radical Republicans or President Johnson Issue: What should be done to the South? Southerners need to take an oath to support, protect and defend the Constitution of the US President Johnson
Supports Lincoln’s “malice toward none” President Johnson Radical Republicans or President Johnson Issue: What should be done to the South? Supports Lincoln’s “malice toward none” President Johnson
Punish the South Radical Republican Radical Republicans or President Johnson Issue: What should be done to the South? Punish the South Radical Republican
Radical Republicans or President Johnson Issue: Readmitting Southern States States should be able to decide if they want to grant equal rights to freedmen President Johnson
Radical Republicans or President Johnson Issue: Readmitting Southern States Only certain African Americans should be given the right to vote, like those that could read or write President Johnson
States would be ruled by military law until they enforced the new laws Radical Republicans or President Johnson Issue: Readmitting Southern States States would be ruled by military law until they enforced the new laws Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans or President Johnson Issue: Freedmen Cancel all Confederate debts President Johnson
Radical Republicans or President Johnson Issue: Freedmen Congress should pass laws giving some land to the freedmen and should build schools for them Radical Republicans