1. Warm-Up
09/15/16
What do you think will happen to the country now that the war has ended?
Take out your documents and questions. We are writing the paragraph today.

2. WHAT CAUSED THE CIVIL WAR? CREW
Claim: answer the question.
This should include introductory background information plus a concrete answer to the question in the form of a thesis statement
Reason: Supports claim with accuracy.
Evidence and EXPLAIN how each citation supports & clarifies your answer.
Must include source, quote
Make sure the citations actually support your answer
Don’t restate citation, EXPLAIN why it backs you up
Warrant: what you have written about & the points you are making in your writing
Each portion will require multiple sentences

4. Reconstruction

5. Reconstruction handout
Lincoln
Radical Republicans
Reconstruction handout
Johnson

6. War is over, Union wins!
Now the country has to be brought back together
Slavery is over BUT the economic issues still exist, as do the questions of what to do with freed slaves & how/if to punish the South
Country faces both economic & social rebuilding

8. The South is destroyed The Civil War ended April 9, 1865.
Most of the land in the South was destroyed by the Civil War. The South would need to be rebuilt.
Lincoln refers to this process as RECONSTRUCTION

9. During the War
In 1863, Pres. Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation. It declared that all slaves should be set free in the Confederacy. (Why?)

10. Problems facing Reconstruction
How should southern states be allowed to reenter the US? On what terms?
How should ex-confederates be treated?
What does Emancipation mean?
How should the new state governments be formed? Should the old confederates be elected?

11. Three Plans to Reconstruct the Nation
Lincoln- President (beginning his second term)
Radical Republicans- Majority in Congress
Andrew Johnson- Lincolns VP

12. Lincoln’s Plan
President Lincoln wanted to reunite the nation as quickly as possible.
Favored a lenient Reconstruction policy.
Any southern state with at least 10% of its voters making a pledge to be loyal to the U.S. could be readmitted to the Union. 10% Plan
The South also had to accept a ban on slavery.
Full pardons for all except high ranking southern military & gov’t officials.
Wanted a gov’t agency to assist freed slaves.

14. Lincoln is assassinated
Just six days after the war ended, on April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while watching a play.
Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a Southerner who was angry at Lincoln.
Vice-President Andrew Johnson became president.

16. Radical Republicans in Congress
Wanted to reunite the nation
Lincoln’s plan angered a minority of Republicans. They wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders.
They also wanted African Americans to be given full citizenship and the right to vote.

17. Radical Republicans Iron Clad Oath State Suicide Theory
Southerners must admit & prove that they were not in anyway responsible for the war or never bore arms against the US to regain citizenship
State Suicide Theory
States lost ALL their rights when they left the Union

19. Radical Reconstruction
Radicals want:
Longer occupation of southern states by North
Land Redistribution - Give abandoned land to freed people

20. President Johnson
Had the assassin's plot gone as planned, Johnson would have been killed along with Lincoln; instead, he became President.
Racist Southerner had to reconstruct the south, including the extension of civil rights and suffrage to black Southerners.
Wanted to reunite the nation. Agreed with south on slavery but not leaving the Union.

21. Johnson’s Plan and Goals
Block efforts to force Southern states to guarantee full equality for blacks.
The stage was set for a showdown with congressional Republicans, who viewed black voting rights as crucial to their power base in the South.
Handed out thousands of pardons to high ranking Confederates.
Allowed the South to set up "black codes”=maintained slavery under another name

23. The Plans Review Lincoln’s Plan Radical Republicans plan ( Congress)
Goal – reunify the Union
Radical Republicans plan ( Congress)
Goals – punish the South; give rights to freed slaves
Johnson’s Plan
Favorable to the South
Unable to come to an agreement before the end of the war
Complete the VENN diagram for each plan first before doing the similarities

24. Crash Course Review
Watch the video and complete the questions as a review.

25. Everyone in the United States is free.
09/19/19 Warm-up
Everyone in the United States is free.
Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Be prepared to discuss and share!

26. Complete to bookwork from pages 87 to 91.
With a partner:
Complete to bookwork from pages 87 to 91.
You have 60 minutes.

27. Successes and Failures of Reconstruction.
Work with a partner to complete the chart.
Were African American’s really free?

28. Review

31. 13th amendment- Slaves are Free!
With the ending of the war, the slaves were now free.
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution was passed.
The 13th Amendment made slavery illegal forever in the United States.

32. The 14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship to all people born or naturalized within the U.S. except for the Indians.
It said that state governments could not “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

33. 15th Amendment In 1870 the 15th Amendment became law.
The 15th Amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
Women’s rights activists were angry because the amendment did not also grant women the right to vote.

34. The Freedmen’s Bureau
The Freedmen’s Bureau was established to help poor blacks and whites in the South.
The Freedmen’s Bureau established schools in the South.
Laws against educating slaves during the Civil War meant that most ex-slaves did not know how to read and write.

36.
Poor, illiterate and intimidated by widespread violence after the Civil War, many former slaves agreed to sharecropping contracts, that were designed to keep them poor.

37. The Black Codes
The Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states that limited the new-found freedom of African Americans.
Black Codes forced African Americans to work on farms or as servants. They also prevented African Americans from owning guns, holding public meetings, or renting property in cities.

38. Voting Rights Other laws were passed to keep blacks from voting.
One law said former slaves had to pay a tax to vote. It was called a poll tax.
Another law was passed that said a person could only vote if their grandfather had voted. These laws were called the Grandfather Clause.

39. Literacy Tests

41. Ku Klux Klan
In 1866 a group of white southerners created the Ku Klux Klan.
The KKK was a secret society opposed to African Americans obtaining civil rights, particularly the right to vote.
The KKK used violence and intimidation to frighten blacks.
Klan members wore white robes and hoods to hide their identities.
The Klan was known to have murdered many people.

43. Segregation and Jim Crow Laws
Starting in 1881, blacks had to stay in separate hotels, sit in separate parts of theaters, ride in separate rail cars, and have separate schools, libraries, and parks. This is known as segregation.
Segregation - the legal separation of blacks and whites in public places
Jim Crow Laws - laws that forced segregation

45. Reconstruction Comes to an End
Southern democrats take back over and seek redemption
Political violence continued in the South and AA were denied civil and political rights
Former confederate leaders are reelected to Congress.
Reconstruction ended without much progress but the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments remained leading to civil rights in the future.

46. On a separate sheet of paper
What were two positive and two negatives of Reconstruction?

47. Next class… You will have your first major exam: Thinking Historically
Civil War
Reconstruction