1. AS America Dinner Party
TASK: You are hosting a dinner for key individuals from AS America. Your job is to create a seating plan for the event. You have 4 tables, that can hold 4 people each. You must try and put people who will get along together, and those who do not as far away from each other as possible!
AS America Dinner Party
Abraham Lincoln
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stephen Douglas
Jefferson Davis
Justice Taney
David Wilmot
Henry Clay
James Polk
John Calhoun
Franklin Pierce
John Brown
Dred Scott
Daniel Webster
James Buchanan
John Breckenridge
William Seward

2. The Fourteenth Amendment
UNDERSTAND
What the Fourteenth Amendment said
EXPLAIN
How the 14th Amendment came to pass
EVALUATE
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment was a reflection of Steven’s vision

3. To what extent was Thaddeus Steven’s responsible for the 14th Amendment
TASK 1: Create a criteria, on what you would expect if somebody was to be ‘responsible’ for the 14th Amendment
TASK 2: Each table will be given an individual to analyse. Using your homework and new information sheet, make notes on whether your individual meets the criteria or not (or partly!).
TASK 3: Who was most responsible for the 14th Amendment? Why?
UNDERSTAND
What the Fourteenth Amendment said
EXPLAIN
How the 14th Amendment came to pass
EVALUATE
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment was a reflection of Steven’s vision

4. To what extent was Thaddeus Steven’s responsible for the 14th Amendment
Responsible: being the primary cause of the 14th Amendment, and so able to be credited for it.
Thaddeus Stevens
Bingham
Trumbull
Johnson
Criteria 1
Influence the content of the amendment
Criteria 2
Influence the passing of the amendment
UNDERSTAND
What the Fourteenth Amendment said
EXPLAIN
How the 14th Amendment came to pass
EVALUATE
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment was a reflection of Steven’s vision

5. To what extend did the Fourteenth Amendment reflect Thaddeus Steven’s vision for Reconstruction?
IT DID MEET STEVEN’S VISION
IT DID NOT MEET STEVEN’S VISION
Section 1 of the 14th Amendment (P.430)
Further change it leads to (p.431) 1867 Reconstruction Act Fifteenth Amendment
Impact of the Amendment (p.431-2) What it authorised the govt. to do Difference to Bill of Rights Difference to Dred Scott
Southern White Resistance Black Codes (p.429) Violence (p.432)
Johnson’s opposition Johnson and new state government (p.429) Johnson’s attempts to stop ratification (p.430-1)
Changes to the Amendment Compromise (p.430)
1866 Presidential election (p.432)
“Do you inquire why, holding these views and possessing some will of my own, I accept so imperfect a proposition? I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.”
- Stevens
De Jure vs. De Facto??
TASK: Use your homework to pull out concrete examples that would help answer this exam question.
UNDERSTAND
What the Fourteenth Amendment said
EXPLAIN
How the 14th Amendment came to pass
EVALUATE
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment was a reflection of Steven’s vision

6. Flipped Learning TASK:
For next lesson you will need to:
TASK:
Create a profile on Andrew Johnson (p.198 and Lincoln and the Civil War podcast ‘Andrew Johnson’ – can stop at the questions)
Print off a copy of the Reconstruction Timeline