1. Unit 7: The Reconstruction Period
SS8H6: The student will analyze the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Georgia.
c. 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.

2. Reconstruction Period
It took place from 1865 to 1877.
It was the period of rebuilding the South physically, economically, and politically after the Civil War.
Due to damages caused by the war, the South’s railroads, cities and towns were in ruins.
There were food shortages. Also, limited housing and clothing.
Freedmen (former slaves) and Southern whites needed help.
Lincoln wanted the Southern states to take an oath of allegiance to the United States that they would never secede from the union.
He wanted the Southern states to return to the union quickly.
Religion is the only thing regarding life in Georgia that remained the same.
*Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan was called the 10 Percent Plan. When 10% of the people to oath of allegiance to United States

3. Reconstruction Period Facts to Know
When President Lincoln was assassinated, Vice President Andrew Johnson became the President of the USA.
Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan requirements for Southern States were:
Southerners owning more than $20,000 in property had to ask him directly for permission to take the oath of loyalty.
Ratify (approve) the 13th Amendment (Slavery not allowed in the USA)
Cancel the Ordinance of Secession (Rejoin the USA)
Each Southern state had to write a new Constitution with a section abolishing (ending) slavery.
Radical Republicans in Washington, D.C. wanted more punishments for the South.
President Andrew Johnson

4. HOTS Kahoot IT
What was President Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction called?
10 % plan
100% Plan
Congressional Plan
2. When President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated who became acting President?
General Sherman
Robert E Lee
Andrew Johnson
Henry Grady

5. Reconstruction Period Facts to Know
Congress created the Freedmen’s Bureau to help freedmen (former slaves) and poor whites get food, clothing, and shelter.
Plantation owners desperately needed workers to grow and harvest crops, so they hired:
Sharecroppers-Contracted workers who farmed a plot of land for the landowner and received a portion of the crop.
Tenant Farmers-Farmed the land of landowner, but paid rent with cash or with a portion of the crops. They owned their own equipment and farm animals.

6. HOTS (Kahoots) 3. The purpose of the Freemen's Bureau was to help?
former slaves
all free people in the South
all poor people in the south
former slaves and poor whites
4. Sharecroppers paid their land owners by?
paying a monthly rental or lease fee
allowing landowners to use their equipment
providing labor and a large percentage of the crop
agreeing to work without pay for five to seven years

7. 5. How were tenant  farmers different from sharecroppers?
Tenant farmers owned all their equipment
Tenant farmers usually made a small profit
Tenant farmers bought their seed from the owner
Tenant farmers usually didn't pay rent for their houses

8. The following amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution:
13th Amendment-Banned slavery in the USA (1865).
14th Amendment-All persons born in the USA are citizens of the USA (1866).
15th Amendment-All male citizens of the USA are allowed to vote (no matter their race, 1870).
Henry McNeal Turner, an African American, was elected a Georgia senator in 1868 for the General Assembly.
Ku Klux Klan was created in 1866 by Confederate war veterans who used terror and violence to keep freedmen from voting, holding political office, and exercising their constitutional rights.
Henry McNeal Turner

9. 6. What did the 14th Amendment do?
It gave blacks citizenship
It gave blacks their freedom
It gave blacks the right to vote
It gave blacks the right to own property
7. What did the 15th Amendment do?
It gave blacks citizenship
It gave blacks their freedom
It gave blacks the right to vote
It gave blacks the right to own property

10. 8. What was the main goal of Ku Klux Klan was to?
return land to former Confederates
attract members from all social classes
force the carpetbaggers to move back north
to prevent the freemen from exercising thier rights

11. Tariff of Abomination
"Tariff of 1828" was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States . It was designed to protect industry in the northern United States. It was labeled the Tariff of Abominations by its southern detractors because of the effects it had on the antebellum Southern economy.
The major goal of the tariff was to protect industries in the northern United States which were being driven out of business by low-priced imported goods by taxing them.

12. 9. What was the Tariff of Abomination about?
Taxed all exported goods to England
to protect industries in the northern United States
Taxed the South for their role in the Civil War
Ended the tax on the sale of slaves

13. Ticket Out The Door 2/10/15
Discussion Question-If you were the President of the United States of America in 1865, what kind of punishment(s) would you give members of the Confederate States of America’s government and military for seceding from the Union? Please be prepared to share your response with the class.