1. Major points about the Civil War & Reconstruction Confederate monument, Liberty, Virginia

2. Before the Civil War:  Slavery leads to crisis  There are a series of compromises  (Missouri,1850, Kansas Nebraska Act )  Fugitive Slave Law is met with resistance  Bleeding Kansas  Dred Scott v. Sanford: (1857) slaves not citizens, free-soil doesn’t make them free

3. John Brown: slave revolt

4. The Civil War  Lincoln is elected  South Carolina secedes  Jefferson Davis is elected President of the Confederate States of America DVD: The Story of Us, “Division” - Slave Law, JB, Kansas, Suc. (31-45)

5. Fort Sumter

6. Artillery “Battle Hymn of the Republic”

7. From Above

8. Reconstruction 1865-1877  Three amendments come from the Civil War:  13 th : outlaws slavery  14 th : states cannot deny rights and privileges of U.S. citizens  15 th : no person can be denied the vote based upon race, color, previous servitude

9. Reconstruction  Freedman’s Bureau set-up  To provide food, clothing, hospitals, legal protection, and education to freed slaves and poor whites  Lincoln’s plan is seen as lenient  Johnson’s plan is the same  Radical Republicans wanted to destroy political power of slaveholders and punish South

10. Anti- Freedman’s propoganda

11. Reconstruction  Johnson is impeached by Congress, escapes getting kicked out by one vote!  1868 Grant is elected  How to redistribute land? Was it constitutional?  Solution: sharecropping,  Tenant farming

12. Tenant Farmer House: Scott, Arkansas

13. The Effects of Reconstruction RRRResistance of Southern whites: i.e. the Ku Klux Klan to destroy the Republican party SSSSupport fades: PPPPanic of 1873, Slaughterhouse cases divert away attention or reduces rights TTTThe Democrats regain control and reconstruction ends!

14. Confederate graveyard, Lynchburg VA. DVD clips: Reconstruction