1. Summarize in your notes the following questions: (1) How did the Era of Reconstruction end? (2) Was this era a failure or a success? (3) How could it have ended differently? Tues, 10/7/14

2. Feedback on Papers: Capitalize proper nouns: – Fugitive Slave Act / Fugitive Slave Law – North (when referring to a region not direction) North vs. north Use titles – “President Abraham Lincoln” not “Abe Lincoln”

3. Run-on Sentence: “The South was also based on the plantation system while the North was focused on the city life and the North had to work with different class and culture and the South had to hold antiquated social order.”

4. Run-on Sentence: “One of the reasons was because it would have forcefully taken the slaves from the South and send them to a place they may have never want to go to and want to get to live in America where they already, if they got their freedom used what they learned from living on the plantations in the real world and it would help our economy too.”

5. Sentence Fragment: “The first reason for the Civil War, having to do with the causes, leading to the great conflict between the North and South.”

6. Good Analysis: “Lastly, the most immediate events leading up to the Civil War were the Fugitive Slave Act (1850), the Dred Scott Case (1857), and John Brown’s Raid (1859). All of these heightened the tension until the nation cracked. The decision of the Dred Scott’s Case impacted Congress’s ability to act upon slavery because, by declaring that Africans weren’t actually citizens or even people, they lost the ability to protect or free them.”

7. Interesting Analysis: “Many other countries besides the United States had freed their slaves. The biggest act was in Great Britain to free slaves. The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 was an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire. The U.S. couldn’t free their slaves because the South depended upon them as property, to work in the cotton fields and other farms. Although at the end of the Civil War the U.S. did free most of the slaves in the South.”

8. Student Proposal: “My proposal would be to give the South what it wanted, immunity to the abolition of slavery under federal law but only under certain conditions. My conditions would be as follows: (1) slavery cannot expand beyond its current northern borders; (2) all territory between the southern states and the edge of the Louisiana Purchase will have to decide by popular sovereignty; (3) a 5%-15% tax will be imposed on slave states after 10 years; (4) all slave states and territories will vote on whether or not to keep slavery every presidential election; (5) a person must live in a state for seven years in order to vote on the continuation of slavery in that state; (6) slavery cannot expand past the western border of the Louisiana Purchase.”

9. Plagiarism: Use in-text citations for the following Quotes Paraphrasing Ideas Statistics When in doubt, use in-text citation!!!

10. Summarize in your notes the following questions: (1) How did the Era of Reconstruction end? (2) Was this era a failure or a success? (3) How could it have ended differently? Tues, 10/7/14

11. Panic of 1873 Financial crisis that triggers a depression, lasting from 1873 to 1879. In the U.S. this was known as the “Great Depression,” until THE “Great Depression” of the 1930’s. How could this affect the Era of Reconstruction?

12. Compromise of 1877 Contested election of Samuel Tilden (Democrat) and Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican). In response for a Republican victory, U.S. Army troops taken out of the American South.

13. Jim Crow and Segregation Supreme Court Decision - Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Supreme Court decides the Louisiana law is constitutional. “Equal but separate accommodations” are Constitutionally valid.

14. In-Class, Oral, Group-Quiz 2 Points – Correctly answering the questions and trying one’s best. Each person in group has to make an effort. 1 Point – Does not know the answer but is still trying. Each person has to try. O Points – Does not even try to answer the questions.