1. Bellwork 10/16/13 Grab notebooks from the crate as you walk in class.
Write down the following three questions on the Nightly News:
What are the global consequences if the U.S. defaults on its loans?
Why isn’t the red-blue division so black and white?
What is affirmative action? What is the SCOTUS reviewing it?
Be ready to take notes on Reconstruction.

2. Reconstruction
Lesson 11

3. What is Reconstruction?
Rebuild and Reunite

4. Lincoln’s Plan – “hug” Advocated speed and tolerance Ten Percent Plan
oath of and recognizes 13th Amendment

5. Slave Freedmen Travel Wed Food Medical care Legal assistance
“forty acres and a mule”

6. Radical Republicans – “slug”
Wade-Davis Bill
Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens
50% give oath of loyalty to be readmitted as a state and right to vote

7. Andrew Johnson – “hug” Southern Democrat Former Tennessean Lenient
Black Codes
rights do have
ensure workforce
social order

8. Congress Takes Control
Congressional election of 1866 – Radical majority
punish the South
Reconstruction Acts – five military districts
Scalawags and Carpetbaggers
President Johnson vetoed all the Radical initiatives, but Congress overrode him each time.

9. Impeachment Andrew Johnson fired Sec. of War – Edwin Stanton
Tenure of Office Act
1 vote short of 2/3 needed in Senate

10. tenant farming/sharecropping
live on land, pay plantation owner for parcel of land, seeds, equipment = debt peonage

11. Reconstruction ends 1877 – Hayes – Compromise of 1877 “Great Betrayal”
poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause, KKK

12. Lasting Impact Civil Rights added to Constitution
13th - abolish slavery
14th - equal protection; citizens
Plessy vs. Ferguson/Brown vs. Board of Education
15th - vote