1. October 13-14 Reconstruction
US History II
October Reconstruction

2. Warm up
Provide examples of freedmen’s rights being increasingly limited as Reconstruction began to fail

3. Essential Question 10-13
How did attitudes about Reconstruction change in the North during Reconstruction?

4. Explain how Reconstruction began to fail
Content Objective I can:
Explain how Reconstruction began to fail

5. Interpret primary sources
Language Objective I can:
Interpret primary sources

6. Political Cartoon introduction Nast Cartoon analysis
Agenda
Warm up
Political Cartoon introduction
Nast Cartoon analysis

7. Political Cartoons
For each of the two cartoons we see answer the following questions on a sheet of paper: What is the cartoon’s message? What does the cartoon tell you about America (or the world) today?

8. What is the cartoon’s message
What is the cartoon’s message? What does the cartoon tell you about America (or the world) today?

9. Perspective
What would someone need to know about modern life in America (or the world) in order to understand this cartoon?

10. What is the cartoon’s message
What is the cartoon’s message? What does the cartoon tell you about America (or the world) today?

11. Perspective
What would someone need to know about modern life in America (or the world) in order to understand this cartoon?

12. You should know
They understand this cartoon because they bring an understanding of today’s context to the cartoon. In 100 years, if someone finds this cartoon, they might not understand it. A political cartoon can also teach us about the context of the time. What do we think the author is trying to say with this cartoon?

13. Reconstruction
There were political cartoons during Reconstruction, too. One very famous political cartoonist was a man named Thomas Nast. He drew cartoons for Harper’s Weekly, a magazine from the North. Today we’re going to look at two of his cartoons from Reconstruction.

14. With a partner complete the exercise. Read the questions first

15. Caption: FRANCHISE. AND NOT THIS MAN?
Source: Thomas Nast was a political cartoonist who drew for a New York magazine called Harper’s Weekly. He supported the North’s side during the Civil War. This cartoon was published in 1865.

16. Caption: COLORED RULE IN A RECONSTRUCTED (?) STATE.
(The members call each other thieves, liars, rascals, and cowards.) COLUMBIA: “You are aping the lowest Whites. If you disgrace your race in this way you had better take back seats.”

17. Closing Thoughts
Though Nast supported the franchise for freedmen, he seems to have mixed feelings about African Americans participating in government. Though we don’t know whether all Northerners shared his views, we know that negative feelings about Reconstruction were feed by rumors of corruption.

18. Why did Northerners begin to lose sympathy for the freedmen?
Exit Pass
On the first piece of paper briefly answer the following:
Why did Northerners begin to lose sympathy for the freedmen?

19. Predict the results of the withdrawal of federal troops from the South at the e end of Reconstruction on the freedmen and freedwomen?
Warm up

20. How did Reconstruction help to shape race relations in the US?
Essential Question:
How did Reconstruction help to shape race relations in the US?

21. Explain the impact of Reconstruction on individuals
Content Objective I can:
Explain the impact of Reconstruction on individuals

22. Express concepts in writing
Language Objective I can:
Express concepts in writing

23. Agenda
Warm up
Project