1. Knights Charge 1/20
Get your number from Mr. T as you walk in and find your desk
Grab a sheet off the wooden chair that says “Setting the Stage” and complete it

2. Knight Charge 1/21
Take out a sheet of paper and answer the following questions…
What was the period after the Civil War trying to rebuild the South known as?
What were two plans to try to readmit Southern states back into the Union?
What three Amendments were passed? What did they each do?
What organization was founded to help newly freed slaves?
What event marked the end of Reconstruction?

3. Reconstruction and the “New south”
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4. Focusing Points…
What were some strategies used by the Government to “Reconstruct” the South after the Civil War
How did the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments impact the American people?
What is the “New South”?

5. Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan
Lincoln wanted to be forgiving
Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan- only ten percent of each state had to take oath to the Union to be forgiven

6. Radical Republicans oppose Lincoln
Many Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South Felt that the Confederacy committed a crime by leaving the union

7. Wade- Davis Bill
Wade-Davis Bill- required that a majority of a state must pledge allegiance to the union before being brought back into union

8. Amendments during Reconstruction
13th Amendment- Ended the practice of slavery 14th Amendment- Granted freed people citizenship 15th Amendment- Protected a citizen’s right to vote regardless of race

9. Emancipated Slaves and the Freedmans’ Bureau
To help newly freed slaves, the Freedman’s Bureau helped them find shelter, food, and education

11. Jim Crow South Begins…
South still aimed to limit the rights of African Americans
Black Codes- laws designed to limit African Americans rights
Jim Crow Laws- established segregation in the South

12. Ku Klux Klan

14. Rebuilding Southern Economy
Sharecropping- Poor farmers would borrow land from landowners and “share” the crops
Keeps poor people and freed blacks in debt
Landowning rich maintained control

16. Rebuilding Southern Politics
Scalawags- People from the South who supported the Union
Carpetbaggers- People from the North who traveled South to take advantage of the rebuilding process

17. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Due to tensions between the North and South after the war...
John Wilkes Booth assassinates Abraham Lincoln at Ford Theater on April 15, 1865
Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States
Greatly angers Radical Republicans in Congress

19. End of Reconstruction
In the Election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden tie in the electoral college.
Compromise of Rutherford B. Hayes is made president and ends Reconstruction

20. The “New South” Begins
During and after Reconstruction, the South continues to rebuild
The term “New South” refers to the South’s struggle to become an industrial region like the North
The South never truly escapes its agricultural identity and remains poor

21. Once your are finished…
Turn in your sheet into your class’s box
Take a sheet that’s called “Unit 1 overview”
Take a textbook out of the box located at the front of the room