Chapter 12



Chapter 12 Reconstruction and It’s Effects

Time Period: 1865-1877

Pages: 374-405

Chapter Objective: To understand the political struggle, accomplishments, and failures of Reconstruction in the years following the Civil War.

Section 1: The Politics of Reconstruction

Section 2: Reconstructing Society

Section 3: The Collapse of Reconstruction

Sunshine State Standards:

|SS.912.A.2.2: Assess the influence of significant people or groups on Reconstruction. [pic]    This benchmark belongs to: |

|Understand the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction and its effects on the American people. |

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|»  SS.912.A.2.3: Describe the issues that divided Republicans during the early Reconstruction era. [pic] |

|       This benchmark belongs to: Understand the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction and its |

|effects on the American people. |

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|»  SS.912.A.2.4: Distinguish the freedoms guaranteed to African Americans and other groups with the 13th, 14th, and 15th |

|Amendments to the Constitution. [pic] |

|       This benchmark belongs to: Understand the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction and its |

|effects on the American people. |

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|»  SS.912.A.2.5: Assess how Jim Crow Laws influenced life for African Americans and other racial/ethnic minority groups. [pic] |

|       This benchmark belongs to: Understand the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction and its |

|effects on the American people. |

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|»  SS.912.A.2.6: Compare the effects of the Black Codes and the Nadir on freed people, and analyze the sharecropping system and |

|debt peonage as practiced in the United States. [pic] |

|       This benchmark belongs to: Understand the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction and its |

|effects on the American people. |

Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Wednesday, Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Purple Day – Odd White Day - Even

Set up notebook for Chapter 12 - Cover Sheet (PRINT OR COPY)

Rip Out Workbook Page 50 and TAPE in your NOTEBOOK, below are the questions from the workbook:

1. What did Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan call for?

2. What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

3. What were the provisions of the Civil Rights Act?

4. What were the main provisions of the Fourteenth (14th) Amendment?

5. What was the central issue of the 1866 congressional elections?

6. What were the main features of the act?

7. Why was Johnson impeached? What was the Senate’s verdict after his impeachment trial?

8. What did the Fifteenth (15th) Amendment guarantee?

Identify: Radical Republicans Thaddeus Stevens Wade-Davis Bill

Read Primary Source: Frederick Douglass on Voting Rights, answer the 3 questions:

1. Why does Douglass feel that suffrage for the black man is so important?

2. Do you agree with Douglass that the time was right to press for suffrage for

black men? Explain.

3.Do you think the right to vote in our time is as important as it was in Douglass’s

time? Why or why not? What would happen today if Americans lost the right to

vote?

GUESS THE TERM GAME ---Vocabulary:

CHAPTER 11 CIVIL WAR and CHAPTER 12 RECONSTRUCTION.

You defined these terms last chapter, now pick TEN (10) TERMS from below, you will create a picture, a cartoon, or create an example (3 different sentences) that will help the class remember the definition of the term you were assigned. The BEST ONES will be displayed in the class. IMPORTANT: Put the picture on the front and the term on the back of the page. If you are creating 3 sentences for a term. Put the sentences on the front and the term on the back. See if your tablemates can guess the correct term. You may draw more than 1 picture per piece of paper, just make sure the term is on the back.

Vocabulary: CHAPTER 11 CIVIL WAR & CHAPTER 12 RECONSTRUCTION.

13th Amendment, 14th Amendment; 15th Amendment; Amnesty; black codes; Carpetbagger; Civil Rights Act of 1866; Compromise of 1877; crop lien; debt; freedmen; Freedmen’s Bureau; Graft; Hiram Revels; Horace Greeley; Impeach; Ku Klux Klan; Military Reconstruction Act; Panic of 1873; pocket veto; Radical Republicans; scalawags; sharecropper; Tenant farmer; Tenure of Office Act; Thaddeus Stevens; Wade-Davis Bill; Whiskey Ring.

Thursday, September 1, 2011 Friday, September 2, 2011

Purple Day - Odd White Day – Even

D.E.A.R. – 15 Minutes of silent sustained reading (no exceptions)

12-2 PROBLEMS AND RESPONSES

1. Primarily Political

Political Problems: South destroyed by war / governments faced with rebuilding the region; difficulty in financing state spending; poor credit ratings; conflicting goals of the groups in the ruling Republican Party; racist laws.

Responses: Created public works projects programs; built orphanages and mental hospitals; created pubic school systems; increased taxes; African Americans took an active role in politics and working for equality.

2. Primarily Economic

Political Problems: Plummeting property values and per capita wealth; population devastated by death and malnutrition; need to increase state spending when few financial resources existed; labor shortage; landlessness among poor whites and former slaves; plummeting cotton prices; widespread debt; bank failures.

Responses: Raised taxes; introduced forced labor contracts; confiscated plantations and redistributed them to former salves; adopted sharecropping and tenant farer systems; grew more cotton; made efforts to diversity Southern economy.

3. Primarily Social

Political Problems: Racism, refusal on the part of many white Southerners to accept blacks as equals; difficulties on the part of many white Southerners in dealing with defeat; separation of African-American families; African-American illiteracy

Responses: Some whites emigrated; many blacks moved from plantations to cities; African Americans made efforts to find family members; African Americans organized and joined various educational, religious, social and political institutions and organizations; some whites resorted to violence against African Americans.

Read 12-2 Literature Selection from Jubilee, by Margaret Walker

Pick 1 of the 3 activities options after reading.

1. In a two-column chart, list the negative and positive aspects of Reconstruction that Vyry and her family experience in this excerpt from Jubilee.

2. Write a diary about Reconstruction from the point of view of one of these characters. Remember to keep in character as your write down thoughts and feelings. To clarify how each of these characters might have reacted to Reconstruction, draw on information from your textbook.

3. Write a factual newspaper story about the fire that destroys the family’s home. Be sure to explain what happened, when it took place, where it happened, who was involved, and why it occurred.

4. Use information from your textbook pages: 383-392 to complete.

Homework: Read section 3 pages 393-401. On a sheet of paper, label one side of the paper, “Reconstruction was a success”, and on the other side of the paper label it “Reconstruction was a failure” Read the section, and write things down on the each side of the paper that support “Reconstruction – Successful” or “Reconstruction – Failure”. At the end of the section be sure to read POINT/COUNTERPOINT. On your paper tell me which perspective do you agree with and why?

No School – Monday, September 5, 2011 LABOR DAY

Tuesday, September 6, 2010 Wednesday, September 7, 2010

Purple Day – Odd White Day - Even

Study Guide: Chapter 12

Pages: 374-405

1. Which Republican became the first president in 1876 through a deal between Party leaders? Rutherford Hayes

2. Which President favored a lenient Ten-Percent plan for Reconstruction? Abraham Lincoln

3. Who was the Secretary of War whose firing led to Andrew Johnson’s impeachment?

4. Which President’s administration was plagued with scandal? Ulysses S. Grant

5. Who was the Union general who promised freed slaves who followed his army “40 acres and a mule”?

6. Who was the New York Tribune editor who ran against Grant in the 1872 presidential election? Horace Greely

7. Who was the first African American United States senator? Hiram Revels

8. Which House of Representative was the leader of the Radical Republicans? Thaddeus Stevens

9. The Fourteenth Amendment was passed to provide a constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Act of 1866. 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to former slaves.

10. During Reconstruction, the system of sharecropping was least beneficial to the Sharecropper.

11. During Reconstruction, many things increased in the South except per capital income.

12. President Andrew Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction aimed to punish confederate leaders.

13. Thaddeus Stevens could be described as a Republican, a Representative, and a Northerner, BUT NEVER A MODERATE since he was the leader of the RADICAL REPUBLICANS.

14. The Compromise of 1877 signaled an end to RECONSTRUCTION.

15. A state government that is run without federal intervention illustrates the idea of home rule.

16. No one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or former enslavement, according to the FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.

17. Thirteenth Amendment – Abolished Slavery In The United States

18. Fourteenth Amendment – Gave Citizenship To Former Slaves

19. Fifteenth Amendment – Right To Vote

20. Reconstruction Act of 1867-Abolished governments formed in the former Confederate states; divided those states into 5 military districts; set up requirements for readmission to the Union.

21. When Reconstruction began, which group of Americans living in the South tended to support the Democratic Party? Carpetbaggers, Scalawags, Wealthy Landowners or African Americans

22. Who did the Radical Republicans believe should be in charge of the Reconstruction policy? The legislative branch of the federal government

23. What did President Andrew Johnson do that SHOWED that he DID NOT support great rights for African Americans in the South? He vetoed BOTH the Freedmen’s Bureau Act and the Civil Rights Act.

24. What were the requirements of Former Confederate states under the Reconstruction Act of 1867? Had to ensure African-American men the right to vote, and the state had to ratify the Fourteen Amendment, giving citizenship to former slaves.

25. What word would be describe Lincoln’s original plan for Reconstruction, which Johnson largely followed? Lenient

26. After the Civil War, why did new Republican governments in the South have difficulty?

27. Why did the federal government eventually send troops into the South?

28. Think of an example of the term “REDEMPTION” as it was defined near the end of Reconstruction?

29. In 1865, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln brings ___________ to the presidency. He announces his plan for ________________, calling for states to be admitted to the Union once they have declared secession illegal, sworn allegiance to the Union, repudiated Confederate debts, and ratified the Thirteenth Amendment.

30. In 1865, Congress votes to expand the ______________, which assists former slaves by providing clothing and food.

31. In 1866, Congress passes the ___________, giving African Americans citizenship and forbidding states from passing discriminatory laws known as _______________________.

32. In 1866, the president vetoes the Freedmen’s Bureau Act and Civil Rights Act leading moderate Republicans to join forces with the _________________________________.

33. In 1866, Congress passes the _____________________________, abolishing the governments formed in the former Confederate states and dividing those states into five military districts. This act is promptly vetoed by _________________________.

34. In 1867, the president’s refusal to cooperate with Congress’s plans for _____________ leads Congress to impeach him. At the end of his 11-day trial, he is found not guilty.

35. In 1868, _____________ is elected president. After the election, the ______________ in Congress, fearing that Southern whites might try to place limits on African-American voting rights, introduce the _______________, which states that no one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or having been enslaved.

36. Which group strongly supported Reconstruction? Radical Republicans

37. What did Democrats and Republicans in Congress agree to, that decided the outcome of a presidential election and effectively ended Reconstruction in the South? The Compromise of 1877

38. What led to economic depression and disputes over currency policies? The panic of 1873.

39. Who was this man? Hint…. Although this man was considered honest, many of the people he appointed to office were dishonest and corrupt. Ulysses S. Grant

40. Who was this man? Hint…As the Democratic candidate for president in the 1876 election, this man won the popular vote but failed to gain the presidency.

Rutherford B. Hayes

41. What allowed many former Confederate to vote and hold elective office? Amnesty Act

42. What term did Democrats use to describe their return to power in the South? Redemption

43. What was the name of the white supremacist group that committed acts of violence against African Americans to keep them from participating in politics and achieving economic progress? KKK

44. What did Southern Democrats manage to achieve after the 1876 election. It allowed them to restrict African-American rights, cut taxes, and wipe out social programs.Home Rule

Homework: Coversheet for Chapter 13 / Vocabulary for Chapter 13

Thursday, September 08, 201 Friday, September 09, 2011

Purple Day – Odd White Day – Even

D.E.A.R. – 15 minutes of silent reading (no exceptions)

CHAPTER 12 RECONSTRUCTION TEST

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