Learning Goals:Learning Goals: 1.Identify the goals of presidential and Congressional Reconstruction. 2.Describe how Reconstruction affected national politics and governments in the South.

Journal Question: What does it mean to be free? How do you know? Explanation: Four million slaves were set free with the 13 th amendment. Most of them had never known freedom.

Journal Question: The South was devastated by the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln had a plan to help bring the South back into the Union. Create your plan that would integrate former slaves into the South and help the economy recover.Journal Question: The South was devastated by the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln had a plan to help bring the South back into the Union. Create your plan that would integrate former slaves into the South and help the economy recover.

Journal Question: Imagine that your house has been knocked down by a powerful storm. Would you rebuild it to be exactly like the original or change the design? Explain your answer. Explanation: After the Civil War the U.S. was faced with a similar decision.

Journal Question: Imagine that the Civil War had never been fought. What would the U.S. be like today?Journal Question: Imagine that the Civil War had never been fought. What would the U.S. be like today?

1. Abraham Lincoln’s plan to reunite the country was to pardon confederate officials and allow Confederate states to send representatives to Congress.

2. White Southerners had to pledge their loyalty to the United States in order to have their property returned to them. This person is reading a pledge. A Reconstruction political cartoon which depicts a freedman going to cast his vote while the disenfranchised former Confederate glumly looks on.

Describe a time when you had a fight or argument with someone over an issue. Did you stay friends or not talk to them anymore? The South is forced to rejoin the Union even though they would rather keep slavery. Think about your answer and then turn to a neighbor and share your thoughts. We will share as a group.

3. The Freedmen Bureau’s role in Reconstruction was that it operated schools to educate former enslaved people, guaranteed land, tools, and seed to all formerly enslaved people, and helped them get jobs. Andrew Johnson is kicking the Freedmen’s Bureau with his veto.

4. Southern whites used Black Codes to restrict the freedom of African Americans after the Civil War. 4. Southern whites used Black Codes to restrict the freedom of African Americans after the Civil War. black codes A cartoon about carpetbagging.

Why do you think the government allowed the South to put Black Codes in place? The Union defeated the South but allowed them to continue restricting the rights of African Americans. Describe a time when you argued with your parents over an unfair rule in your house. Think about your answer and then turn to a neighbor and share your thoughts. We will share as a group.

5. Moderate Republicans supported the states right to govern themselves. Radical Republicans wanted the federal government to play an active role in remaking Southern politics and society.

Voter registration in the South.

“We have turned, or are about to turn, loose four million slaves without a hut to shelter them or a cent in their pockets…if we leave them to the legislation of their late masters, we had better have left them in bondage.” 6. Radical Republicans were the group that made decisions about Reconstruction that made the above quote.

Radical- advocating extreme changes in laws, government, or society. Define radical in your own words. Can you think of any ideas or groups that are considered radical today? Think about your answer and then turn to a neighbor and share your thoughts. We will share as a group.

7. The House of Representatives impeached President Johnson when he violated the Tenure of Office Act by firing his Secretary of War.

8. The Fourteenth Amendment followed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 because Congress wanted equality to be protected by the Constitution.

When should someone be removed from power as a leader? Describe a situation you were involved in where the leader was replaced or a time when you think this should happen. Think about your answer and then turn to a neighbor and share your thoughts. We will share as a group.

CLOSURE ACTIVITY Gallery Walk Choose one slide or one topic from the notes. Take a white sheet of paper and create an exhibit for a museum. We will use these for a gallery walk.