1. Organization
After each test, please move your notebook materials from Current Unit to Previous Units.
Keep the pages in order, you will just keep adding to them.
The new golden cover page should be the first page of your Current Unit.

2. Civil War Summary

3. RECONSTRUCTION
“Post Civil War”

4. What is Reconstruction?
Reconstruction – The reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate States after the Civil War.

5. 4 Key Issues Reconstruction Needed to Solve
1) What should we do with secessionists – people who wanted two separate countries?
Punish or welcome back?
2) How should we re-build the South?
Plantations and farms were destroyed.
Towns and homes were burned to the ground

7. More Key Issues 3) How can we work together and act as one country?
4) How can we help the newly freed slaves?
Freedmen needed: Education, land, money, laws to protect their freedom
** All of these problems needed solutions during Reconstruction!!

9. Reconstruction Amendments
13th Amendment (1865) – banned slavery in the United States and all of its territories

10. Reconstruction Amendments
14th Amendment (1868) – grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States and guarantees them equal protection under the law.

11. Reconstruction Amendments
3 Key
Reconstruction Amendments
15th Amendment (1870) – ensures all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

12. Who still doesn’t have the right to vote?
Amendment Summary
These three amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th) guarantee equal protection under the law for all citizens
Who still doesn’t have the right to vote?
Women

16. Reconstruction Declines
Content Objective: SWBAT discover the impact of ending Reconstruction.
Language Objective: SWBAT explain the importance of the Election of 1876.

17. Reconstruction Declines

18. Election of 1876 Hayes (North) vs. Tilden (South)
The election of 1876 was so corrupt, that neither side knew for sure who won.
Hayes (North) vs. Tilden (South)

19. Election of 1876
The election results were decided in the Compromise of 1877.
*Reconstruction ended in 1877 as a result of the Compromise to decide the outcome of the election of 1876*

20. Compromise of 1877 was a result of the disputed 1876 Presidential election results
NORTH promised to:
SOUTH promised to:
give more aid ($) to the South
withdraw all of the remaining federal troops
Let Southerners handle the Race issue
Maintain all African American Rights
recognize Hayes as the next President of the United States

21. Jim Crow Laws Made segregation in the South legal
Was upheld in infamous court case
Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) –ruled that separate but equal was ok.
Included restaurants, bathrooms, schools, churches, and even public transportation
Increased violence against African Americans and many rights gained during Reconstruction were lost

22. Jim Crow Segregation
Discrimination – treating someone unfairly because of their race, gender, religion, place of birth, age, etc.

23. Voting Restrictions Poll Tax Literacy Tests
Fee you had to pay before you could vote
Poll Tax
Had to read difficult paragraphs or documents and answer questions before you could vote
Literacy Tests
Grandfather Clause- allowed individuals who did not pass the literacy test to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction

25. Objectives
Content Objective: SWBAT compare and contrast Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois
Language Objective: SWBAT explain the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments.

27. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
Jim Crow Handout
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois

28. African American Response to Jim Crow (2 opposing views)
Booker T. Washington
Was born a slave, who had taught himself to read
Wanted to achieve equality patiently, by gaining economic power.
Believed gaining skills and education was the key to equality
Founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (Tuskegee University today)

29. African American Response to Jim Crow (2 opposing views)
W.E.B. Dubois
First African American to receive a PhD from Harvard
Demanded for the right to vote as a way to end segregation.
Believed protest was the key to equality
One of the founders of the NAACP

30. Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Dubois
Both

32. Objectives:
Content: SWBAT analyze 6 biographies to evaluate individual’s feelings on the major events of Reconstruction (laws, amendments, etc).
Learning: SWBAT choose one Reconstruction event for each individual and explain why they would feel strongly about it.

33. Political Cartoon: What do you see? What do you have questions about?
What do you think it means?