1. Reconstruction

2. Fictional video: Soldier burning house of southern women; Women talk about problems they are facing.
3:03 min

3. Think About:
Before the war, some felt that ending slavery quickly would cause problems. Did this belief come true?
Yes…slaves could not get jobs & had no food.

4. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
January 1, Slaves freed but not allowed to vote or hold office
JUNETEENTH
June 19, General Gordon Granger went to Galveston & proclaimed all slaves to be free
250,000 slaves in Texas freed
1979 – Juneteenth was declared an official state holiday to celebrate when the slaves were set free

5. Brief description of Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction
-53 sec

6. Why did Lincoln want to go easy on the South after the war?
What’s Your Opinion?
Why did Lincoln want to go easy on the South after the war?

7. -Lincoln’s assassination & Johnson’ plan for reconstruction
-1:54 min

8. How will Johnson & the Radical Republicans disagree?
What do you think?
How will Johnson & the Radical Republicans disagree?
President Johnson (after Lincoln’s assassination) was a Southerner and people might have been suspicious of his policies – especially Congress.
Radical Republicans were from the north and wanted to punish the southern states.

9. Laws created to force white supremacy
What were Black Codes?
-Sharecropping
-Life for ex-slaves
-Black code examples: marriage between African Americans and whites was outlawed, black men could not vote, hold public office or serve on a jury, separate transportation; Texas homestead law (giving citizens free land) excluded black men
-1:12 min
Laws created to force white supremacy

10. What are some examples to support your answer?
Did the end of the Civil War bring a better life for African Americans in the South?
What are some examples to support your answer?

11. -Brief intro to 13th & 14th Amendment
-Radical Republicans required states to ratify before allowed back in (p329)
-35 sec

12. What was the 13th Amendment?
- freed the slaves
What was the 14th Amendment?
- ALL citizens are guaranteed their rights

13. Helped ex-slaves develop better lives primarily through education
Why was Freedman’s Bureau important?
(Fictional story)
-2:49 min
-Congress Plan
-Public agencies
-Freedman’s Bureau
Helped ex-slaves develop better lives primarily through education

14. http://mrfergusonsclass.com/7th/civilwar/Recon7.asx -45 sec
-1867: 1st Reconstruction Act

15. -Hold Constitutional Conventions Ratify the 14th Amendment
What did states have to do in order to rejoin the union? (Reconstruction Acts)
-Hold Constitutional Conventions
Ratify the 14th Amendment
-Guarantee Freedmen the right to vote
-Hold constitution conventions
-Ratify the 14th amendment
-Guarantee Freedman the right to vote

16. Ex-slaves as voters
26 seconds (after this slide, go directly to the next slide)

17. -1:52 min (Fictional re-enactment of debate)
-Congress & Johnson battle on Reconstruction policies
-Johnson impeached
-Radical Republics felt southerners should be punished

18. Texas Constitution of 1866 Amendments to the Constitution of 1845
Ended slavery in Texas but wouldn’t ratify the 13th US Amendment making it illegal for all states
Canceled state debts from war
James W. Throckmorton elected as governor
Johnson accepted Texas back into the Union but Congress said no
Go over quickly!

19. Who was the 18th President of the U.S.?
-Ulysses S. Grant elected as 18th President
-8 seconds
Ulysses S. Grant

20. What was the 15th amendment?
-15th amendment: gave African Americans right to vote
-video is fictional speech
-48 seconds
Every man can vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude

21. -1st black U.S. Senator
-Republic blacks and former northerners ratified state constitutions since white southerners had committed treason
-states readmitted
1:30 min

22. TEXAS CONSTITUTION OF 1869
One of the longest & most costly meetings; June – February
Declared the US Constitution as law
Guaranteed the right of all men to vote, regardless of “race, color, or former condition.”
Established the foundation of a public school system for all children
Centralized system of law enforcement
Number & legnth of terms for state government offices
-students do not need to write these notes, they are for general knowledge only

23. TEXAS CONSTITUTION OF 1869
Edmund J. Davis elected governor
14th & 15 Amendments to US Constitution ratified
March 8, 1870 – readmitted to the Union & President Grant declared Reconstruction over in Texas
-Students write “Constitution of readmitted to the Union” into notes

24. http://mrfergusonsclass.com/7th/civilwar/Recon13.asx Economic changes
-cotton mills
-increase trade with Northerners
-Railroads
29 seconds

25. Cotton mills – industry for cotton plantation began in the south
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Cotton mills – industry for cotton plantation began in the south
Increased trade with Northerners
Railroads improve transportation

26. -KKK
40 seconds

27. RACIAL DIFFICULTIES
Racism – hatred towards a group of people based only on their skin color
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) – a group who used violence and terrorist acts to enforce white supremacy

28. Gave land to freed slaves
What was the Homestead Act?
-Homestead Act
31 seconds
Gave land to freed slaves

29. -South tried to end Reconstruction
-Hays presidential election ends Reconstruction
-Go straight into next slide
59 seconds

30. Recap Reconstruction accomplishments
1:10 min