1. Warm-Up
New Reference sheet!
Put lifework into bucket!

2. Class Mottos (3)
Who are we? Diamonds!

3. “Swing your machete!”

5. Today’s Objective Diamonds will:
Explain the economic, political, and social problems during Reconstruction and evaluate their impact on different groups.

6. Reconstruction part 2 pg. 125
Unit 8: Civil War & Reconstruction

7. Homestead Act 1862
Made it easier for people to get land from the government out West

8. Morrill Act, 1862
Provided federal government land for colleges and universities (Texas A& M, Prairie View A & M, etc…)

9. Transcontinental Railroad, 1869
Council Bluffs, Iowa to Sacramento, California
Made it easier to travel West

10. Dawes Act, 1887
Removed more Indians to government reservations in the West.

11. Freedman’s Bureau
Federal agency designed to help African- Americans in the South

12. The South Strikes Back…
Southern states make up new rules to treat African- Americans unfairly (South does not learn!)

13. Black Codes & Jim Crow Laws
Laws designed to discriminate and hurt African- Americans
Led to segregation

14. Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Started to scare African-Americans from voting
Led to violence (lynching's etc…)
Still around today (less violent)

18. Civil Rights Movement
Designed to help African-Americans gain more rights
1950s-present

20. Civil Rights Movement
Designed to help African-Americans gain more rights
1950s-present

27. Homework Reconstruction Reading 2 Work on End of the Year Packet
Play Free Rice
Play Team Haughton review games
Make flash cards
Study your notebook