1. Warm-Up Write the sentences.
The _____ army surrendered at ____ in April of 1865.
____ is the name given to the time period following the Civil War (1867 to 1877) in which Southern states were brought back into the Union.

2. Warm-Up Answers ONLY.
After the Civil War, what system was developed to provide labor to work for former plantations?
What was President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction called?

3. WARM-UP
3 new amendments added to the Constitution after the Civil War.
2 Presidents who proposed Reconstruction Plans
1 of the first African Americans to be a member of the Georgia General Assembly.

4. Changes to our Constitution
WORK PERIOD
STATION 1
Study Island Station
STATION 2
Changes to our Constitution
STATION 3
Freedmen’s Bureau
Complete 20 Questions on Reconstruction.
Be sure to complete the lesson.
You may play in game mode.
Complete the handout on the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
Do Not Write on it. Use your own paper.
Create a Poster or 3 fold Brochure advertising The Freedmen’s Bureau.
List
Founders
Goal/Mission of the organization;
People who were eligible for assistance

5. SS8H6c Analyze the impact of Reconstruction on Georgia and other southern states, emphasizing Freedmen’s Bureau; sharecropping and tenant farming; Reconstruction plans; 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the constitution; Henry McNeal Turner and black legislators; and the Ku Klux Klan. 5

6. CHARLESTON,
SOUTH CAROLINA

7. ATLANTA,
GEORGIA

8. RICHMOND,
VIRGINIA

9. Political Reconstruction
Essential Question
How did the Union and the former Confederacy recombine after the Civil War to become one nation?

10. Divide your paper in half Use Chapter 17 in the text to research the plans to “rebuild America.”
Presidential Reconstruction
Congressional Reconstruction
What was the name of President Lincoln’s plan?
What was the requirement of the plan?
How did Congress feel about it?
What amendment was born? What did it say?
What amendments were born?
How was the south organized and why?
States were asked to rewrite____.
Confederate leaders no longer had ____.

11. Divide your paper in half Use Chapter 17 in the text to research the plans to “rebuild America.”
Presidential Reconstruction
Congressional Reconstruction
1.What was the name of President Lincoln’s plan?
2.What was the requirement of the plan?
3.How did Congress feel about it?
4.When Andrew Johnson became president, what did he add to the plan?
5What amendment was born? What did it say?
1.What amendments were born? What did they say?
2.How was the south organized and why?
3. States were asked to rewrite____.
4. Confederate leaders no longer had ____.

12. RECONSTRUCTION PLANS (plan to readmit southern states back into the Union)
PRESIDENTIAL
CONGRESSIONAL
Presidents Lincoln and Andrew Johnson wanted to quickly reunite the country together
10% PLAN – only ten percent of the voting population in each southern state had to take an oath of loyalty
13th Amendment – abolish slavery
Radical Republicans in Congress did not like how southern states were abusing former slaves
Created five military districts in the South with US soldiers to protect the rights of former slaves
States had to rewrite their constitutions
Former Confederate leaders could no longer have power
13th amendment – abolish slavery
14th amendment – grant citizenship and equal rights to all persons born in the United States
15th amendment – guarantee freedmen the right to vote

14. After the amendments were born, did all people have equal rights?

16. GROUPS 1- Constitutional Convention of 1867
2- Redeemers and Independents
3- Freedman’s Bureau
4- Agriculture; Commerce, Industry and Transportation

17. REFLECTION How did you contribute to the overall project?
If you could change one thing about the presentation, what would it be and why?
How would you grade your group?
How would you grade yourself as a group member?

21. RULES AND LAWS LIMITING THE FREEDOM OF BLACKS IN THE SOUTH
WHAT WERE BLACK CODES?
RULES AND LAWS LIMITING THE FREEDOM OF BLACKS IN THE SOUTH
RACIAL SEGREGATION (SEPARATION OF THE RACES)
“PERSONS OF COLOR” COULD NOT VOTE
COULD NOT HOLD OFFICE (MAYOR, CONGRESSMAN, SENATOR, JUDGE, SHERIFF, ETC…)
HAD TO OBEY CURFEWS
COULD NOT SERVE ON JURIES
COULD NOT TESTIFY AGAINST WHITES IN COURT
ARRESTED FOR NOT HAVING A JOB
FORCED TO WORK ON ROAD CREWS OR FARMS UNTIL FINES PAID

22. WHAT IS THE KU KLUX KLAN?

23. HOW WAS SHARECROPPING SIMILAR TO SLAVERY?

25. Sharecroppers Sharecroppers' House
A sharecropper stands in the door of her Lowndes County home, circa In that year black sharecroppers managed more than 106,000 farms in Georgia.
Sharecroppers
Sharecroppers pose in a Bulloch County tobacco field in The practice of sharecropping, which involved workers raising crops on someone else's farm in exchange for a portion of the harvest, developed in the years after the Civil War and persisted until the mid-twentieth century.

26. Tenant Farmers Tenant Homes
The homes of tenant farmers stand alongside a cotton field in Georgia. Landless whites, many of whom were farm tenants, made up nearly half the white populace in the state by 1860.
Tenant Farmer Home
With few exceptions antebellum tenant farmers in Georgia were white. After the Civil War most tenants (including sharecroppers) were former slaves.

27. HENRY McNEAL TURNER Member of the Republican Party
African-American elected to the Georgia legislature in 1868
However, the all-white Democratic Party legislature denied Henry McNeal Turner and 26 other black legislators from participating in Georgia’s General Assembly (legislature), claiming that blacks had the right to vote, but not the right to hold office
The United States government over-ruled Georgia’s legislature and allowed Turner and his fellow black legislators to be able to hold office and take their seats in Georgia’s General Assembly.

28. HENRY McNEAL TURNER
“For myself, sir, I was raised in the cotton field of South Carolina, and in order to prepare myself for usefulness, as well to myself as to my race, I determined to devote my spare hours to study. When the overseer retired at night to his comfortable couch, I sat and read and thought and studied, until I heard him blow his horn in the morning. He frequently told me, with an oath, that if he discovered me attempting to learn, that he would whip me to death, and I have no doubt he would have done so, if he had found an opportunity. I prayed to Almighty God to assist me, and He did, and I thank Him with my whole heart and soul...”

29. HENRY McNEAL TURNER
“If Congress has simply given me a merely sufficient civil and political rights to make me a mere political slave for Democrats, or anybody else giving them the opportunity of jumping on my back in order to leap into political power I do not thank Congress for it. Never, so help me God, shall I be a political slave. I am not now speaking for those colored men who sit with me in this House, nor do I say that they endorse my sentiments, but assisting Mr. Lincoln to take me out of servile slavery did not intend to put me and my race into political slavery. If they did, let them take away my ballot I do not want it, and shall not have it. I don't want to be a mere tool of that sort. I have been a slave long enough already.”

30. HENRY McNEAL TURNER
“Go on with your oppressions. Babylon fell. Where is Greece? And where is Rome, the Mistress Empire of the world? Why is it that she stands, today, in broken fragments throughout Europe? Because oppression killed her. Every act that we commit is like a bounding ball. If you curse a man, that curse rebounds upon you; and when you bless a man, the blessing returns to you; and when you oppress a man, the oppression also will rebound. Where have you ever heard of four millions of freemen being governed by laws, and yet have no hand in their making? Search the records of the world, and you will find no example.”