1. Presidential Reconstruction
Chapter 12 Section 1
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2. 3 Minute Madness What does the word reconstruct mean?
How would “reconstruct” relate to the period after the Civil War?

3. Setting the Scene
Turn to page 424 and read about what it was like for former Confederate Val C. Giles to return home at the end of the Civil War.

4. Essential Question
What issues need to be resolved during the Reconstruction time period?

5. Issues Millions of slaves now freed
A Southern army with millions who had fought against the United States
11 Southern states who had left the United States
A destroyed Southern economy and wasted cities
Massive amounts of property in the South up for grabs

6. If you were President…
Individually – Based off of the issues discussed on the previous slide take 10 minutes to create 3 questions that need to be answered during Reconstruction.
In groups – Answer the same questions as a group…Your group must agree on all answers.

7. Questions that need to be answered
What will be the status of former slaves?
How will the land of plantation owners be distributed if at all?
What do we do with soldiers who killed Union troops?
Who will pay for the physical Reconstruction of the South?
How will state governments come back to the Union? Under what conditions?
Who will get to vote?
What to do about violence against freedmen?

8. Conclusion
Respond to the poll and leave a reply on how you feel the South should be punished.

9. 3 Minute Madness

10. Essential Question
What did Lincoln and Johnson’s Reconstruction plans both focus on?

11. Reconstruction Plans Lincoln’s plan Johnson’s plan
Each state could create a new constitution without Lincoln’s 10 percent allegiance requirement.
States had to void secession, abolish slavery, and repudiate the Confederate debt.
Although it officially denied pardons to all Confederate leaders, Johnson often issued pardons to those who asked him personally.
Denied pardons to officers and anyone who had killed African American war prisoners.
Permitted each state to create a new constitution after 10 percent of voters took an oath of allegiance.
Offered pardons to Southerners who swore allegiance.
States could then hold elections and rejoin the Union.

12. Read The Taste of Freedom on pages 427-429.
What were four basic freedoms that blacks took advantage of when they were given freedom?
What was one of the first things freed blacks did when they had the freedom of movement?
Why was there a rumor that the government was going to give all freedmen “forty acres and a mule?”
How did the Freedmen’s Bureau help black southerners adjust to freedom?

13. A Wounded Nation: All Americans Struggle to Recover after the Civil War

14. Test Question #1
What was the main difference between the Reconstruction plans of Lincoln and Johnson?
(A) Johnson’s plan denied pardons to Confederate military and government officials.
(B) Lincoln’s plan gave voting rights to African Americans.
(C) Johnson’s plan allowed southern states to hold conventions without the 10 percent allegiance clause.
(D) Lincoln’s plan offered land to freed African Americans.

15. Test Question #2
What was the first major federally funded relief agency in the United States?
(A) The Red Cross
(B) The Freedmen’s Bureau
(C) The United Hospital System
(D)The Agency for Public Schooling

16. Test Question #1
What was the main difference between the Reconstruction plans of Lincoln and Johnson?
(A) Johnson’s plan denied pardons to Confederate military and government officials.
(B) Lincoln’s plan gave voting rights to African Americans.
(C) Johnson’s plan allowed southern states to hold conventions without the 10 percent allegiance clause.
(D)Lincoln’s plan offered land to freed African Americans.

17. Test Question #2
What was the first major federally funded relief agency in the United States?
(A) The Red Cross
(B) The Freedmen’s Bureau
(C) The United Hospital System
(D)The Agency for Public Schooling

18. Congressional Reconstruction
Chapter 12 Section 2
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19. 3 Minute Madness
Describe a situation in your life where you were in an argument or a fight with someone who you became friendly with afterwards. Was it difficult or easy to be friendly with this person? Explain why it was difficult or easy.
Explain why you think the reunion of the North and South after the war was especially difficult to accomplish?

20. Analyze this statement:
“Reconstruction was an extension of the Civil War”
How did the issues involved in punishing or pardoning the South continue to divide the North and the South?

21. Setting the Scene
Open your book to page 430 and read about why the initial surge of joy at gaining freedom quickly faded

22. Essential Question
What were the causes and effects of Congressional Reconstruction?

23. Congress takes Over Reconstruction
CAUSES
Many southerners do not accept the end of slavery
Congress takes Over Reconstruction
EFFECTS

24. Congress takes Over Reconstruction
CAUSES
Many southerners do not accept the end of slavery
New southern governments enact black codes
Congress takes Over Reconstruction
EFFECTS

25. Congress takes Over Reconstruction
CAUSES
Many southerners do not accept the end of slavery
New southern governments enact black codes
Violence against African Americans in the South increases
Congress takes Over Reconstruction

26. Congress takes Over Reconstruction
CAUSES
Many southerners do not accept the end of slavery
New southern governments enact black codes
Violence against African Americans in the South increases
Southern defiance of Reconstruction enrages
northern Republicans in Congress.
Congress takes Over Reconstruction
EFFECTS

27. Congress takes Over Reconstruction
CAUSES
Many southerners do not accept the end of slavery
New southern governments enact black codes
Violence against African Americans in the South increases
Southern defiance of Reconstruction enrages
northern Republicans in Congress.
Congress takes Over Reconstruction
EFFECTS
Civil Rights Act of 1866

28. Congress takes Over Reconstruction
CAUSES
Many southerners do not accept the end of slavery
New southern governments enact black codes
Violence against African Americans in the South increases
Southern defiance of Reconstruction enrages
northern Republicans in Congress.
Congress takes Over Reconstruction
EFFECTS
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Congress passes the Fourteenth Amendment

29. Congress takes Over Reconstruction
CAUSES
Many southerners do not accept the end of slavery
New southern governments enact black codes
Violence against African Americans in the South increases
Southern defiance of Reconstruction enrages
northern Republicans in Congress.
Congress takes Over Reconstruction
EFFECTS
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Congress passes the Fourteenth Amendment
Reconstruction Act of 1867

30. Congress takes Over Reconstruction
CAUSES
Many southerners do not accept the end of slavery
New southern governments enact black codes
Violence against African Americans in the South increases
Southern defiance of Reconstruction enrages
northern Republicans in Congress.
Congress takes Over Reconstruction
EFFECTS
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Congress passes the Fourteenth Amendment
Reconstruction Act of 1867

31. “Radical” Reconstruction Act of 1867
Put South under military rule
Create new state constitutions
Required states to allow all male voters, including African Americans, the right to vote.
Barred Confederate supporters from voting
Guaranteed equal rights to all citizens
Required states to ratify the 14th Amendment

32. Reconstruction and Rebuilding: Congress Takes Charge of Reconstruction

33. Read Black Codes and The Fourteenth Amendment on pages 430-431.
What were the Black Codes and who put them in place?
Give 2 examples of the Black Codes.
What did Congress do to change the Black Code situation?
What did Congress do after it overrode the Presidents veto of the Civil Rights Act?

34. After the Civil War, was it possible to put America back together the way it was before the war? Why? Why not?
What would have been necessary for America to allow greater liberty for all people during the Reconstruction Era?
What do you think was the greatest success of the Reconstruction Era? Why?
What do you think was the greatest failure or problem of the Reconstruction Era? Why?
How did Southern whites try to resist freedom for the former slaves? List three ways.
If you were President, under what terms would you have allowed the Confederate States to rejoin the United States?

35. Test Question #1– Section 2
What did the Fourteenth Amendment Guarantee?
(A) Voting rights for African Americans
(B) The rights of white planters to keep their land
(C) Civil rights for all citizens of the United States
(D)Congress’s right to amend the Constitution

36. Test Question #1– Section 2
What did the Fourteenth Amendment Guarantee?
(A) Voting rights for African Americans
(B) The rights of white planters to keep their land
(C) Civil rights for all citizens of the United States
(D)Congress’s right to amend the Constitution

37. Test Question #2 – Section 2
Which one of these was a provision of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
(A) Supporters of the Confederacy were temporarily barred from voting.
(B) Freed people could rent land or homes only in rural areas.
(C) Southern land was redistributed to freedmen.
(D)African Americans were given money for education

38. Test Question #2 – Section 2
Which one of these was a provision of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
(A) Supporters of the Confederacy were temporarily barred from voting.
(B) Freed people could rent land or homes only in rural areas.
(C) Southern land was redistributed to freedmen.
(D) African Americans were given money for education

39. Birth of the “New South”
Chapter 12 Section 3
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40. 3 Minute Madness
Think about the type of people who might be drawn to help rebuild the south.
Would their interests be mainly for the good of society, for their own personal gain, or both.

41. Setting the Scene
Turn to page 436 and read about how the Holtzclaw family (a former slave family) struggled to get ahead.

42. Essential Question
What economic changes occurred in the South during Reconstruction?

43. Economic Changes in the South
Labor
Farming
Industry

44. Economic Changes in the South
Labor
Farming
Industry

45. Labor Loss of slave labor
Workers attempt to find higher-paying jobs, such as jobs working on railroads.
Few laborers available to pick cotton

46. Farming Sharecropping emerges, resulting in cycle of debt
Tenant farming emerges
Emphasis on cash crops
Rise of merchants

47. Industry Railroads rebuilt and extended
Cities grow, along with commerce and population
Focus on early, less profitable stages of manufacturing

48. Sharecropping and the Cycle of Debt1. 5. 2. 4. 3.

49. Sharecropping and the Cycle of Debt
1. Poor whites and freedmen have no jobs, no homes, and no money to buy land. 5. 2. 4. 3.

50. Sharecropping and the Cycle of Debt
1. Poor whites and freedmen have no jobs, no homes, and no money to buy land. 5.
2. Poor whites and freedmen sign contracts to work a landlord’s acreage in exchange for a part of the crop 4. 3.

51. Sharecropping and the Cycle of Debt
1. Poor whites and freedmen have no jobs, no homes, and no money to buy land. 5.
2. Poor whites and freedmen sign contracts to work a landlord’s acreage in exchange for a part of the crop 4.
3. Landlord keeps track of the money that sharecroppers owe him for housing and food.

52. Sharecropping and the Cycle of Debt
1. Poor whites and freedmen have no jobs, no homes, and no money to buy land. 5.
2. Poor whites and freedmen sign contracts to work a landlord’s acreage in exchange for a part of the crop
4. At harvest time, the sharecropper owes more to the landlord than his share of the crop is worth.
3. Landlord keeps track of the money that sharecroppers owe him for housing and food.

53. Sharecropping and the Cycle of Debt
1. Poor whites and freedmen have no jobs, no homes, and no money to buy land.
5. Sharecropper cannot leave the farm as long as he is in debt to the landlord.
2Poor whites and freedmen sign contracts to work a landlord’s acreage in exchange for a part of the crop
4. At harvest time, the sharecropper owes more to the landlord than his share of the crop is worth.
3. Landlord keeps track of the money that sharecroppers owe him for housing and food.

54. Sharecropping and the Cycle of Debt
1. Poor whites and freedmen have no jobs, no homes, and no money to buy land.
5. Sharecropper cannot leave the farm as long as he is in debt to the landlord.
2. Poor whites and freedmen sign contracts to work a landlord’s acreage in exchange for a part of the crop.
4. At harvest time, the sharecropper owes more to the landlord than his share of the crop is worth.
3. Landlord keeps track of the money that sharecroppers owe him for housing and food.

55. Reading Comprehension Funding Reconstruction pages 439-440
What was the “gospel of prosperity?”
How did the need to rebuild America’s infrastructure provide job opportunities to citizens?
Where did the money to rebuild America’s infrastructure come from?
Who participated in the corruption that took place during Reconstruction?

56. Sharecropping

57. Test Question #1- Ch12 Sec 3
How was sharecropping different from tenant farming?
(A) Tenant farmers were promised a share of the crop at harvest time.
(B) Tenant farmers could not leave the plantation if they owed money
to the planter.
(C) Tenant farmers could choose which crops to plant.
(D)Planters usually provided housing for the tenant farmers.

58. Test Question #1- Ch12 Sec 3
How was sharecropping different from tenant farming?
(A) Tenant farmers were promised a share of the crop at harvest time.
(B) Tenant farmers could not leave the plantation if they owed money
to the planter.
(C) Tenant farmers could choose which crops to plant.
(D)Planters usually provided housing for the tenant farmers

59. Test Question #2- Ch12 Sec 3
Why was industrialization more successful in the North than in the South?
(A) Southerners did not put emphasis on rebuilding their infrastructure.
(B) Southern industrial growth came from cotton mills.
(C) Southern factories handled the earlier, less profitable stages of manufacturing.
(D)Southern states spent too much money on building public schools.

60. Test Question #2- Ch12 Sec 3
Why was industrialization more successful in the North than in the South?
(A) Southerners did not put emphasis on rebuilding their infrastructure.
(B) Southern industrial growth came from cotton mills.
(C) Southern factories handled the earlier, less profitable stages of manufacturing.
(D)Southern states spent too much money on building public schools.

61. The End of Reconstruction
Chapter 12 Section 4
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62. 3 Minute Madness List as many hate groups as you can.
What do you think motivates these groups?
Why do you think the Ku Klux Klan was formed and what do you think the group intended to accomplish?

63. Setting the Scene
Open your books to page 442 and follow along as I read the Setting the Scene section>

64. Essential Q uestion
What were the successes and failures of Reconstruction?

65. Democrats regain power Federal troops withdraw from South Failures
The End of
Reconstruction
Reasons
Corruption
The economy
Violence
Democrats regain power
Federal troops withdraw
from South
Failures
bitterness remains
Industrialization is slow
African Americans denied
right to vote
Cycle of poverty remains
Racist attitudes continue
Successes
Union restored
Economic growth
14th and 15th amendments
Freedmen’s Bureau
Education

66. An End to African American Suffrage
1860s Reconstruction begins.
1870s Reconstruction ends.
1950s-1960s Civil Rights movement begins.
1900s-1940s Jim Crow laws prevent African Americans from voting

67. The Ku Klux Klan Persecute African Americans in the South

68. Successes and Failures of Reconstruction
Union is restored.
Many white southerners remain bitter toward the federal government and the Republican Party.
The South’s economy grows and new wealth is created in the North.
The South is slow to industrialize.
Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments guarantee African Americans the rights of citizenship, equal protection under the law, and suffrage.
After federal troops are withdrawn, southern state governments and terrorist organizations effectively deny African Americans the right to vote.
Freedmen’s Bureau and other organizations help many black families obtain housing, jobs, and schooling.
Many black and white southerners remain caught in a cycle of poverty.
Southern states adopt a system of mandatory education.
Racist attitudes toward African Americans continue, in both the South and the North.

69. A Failed Revolution: Reconstruction Ends

70. Setting the Scene