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Warm up . Write the first ten Presidents in order. 1 . George Washington (1789-1797) 2. John Adams (1797-1801) 3. Thomas Jefferson (1801-1805) 4. James Madison ( 1809-1817) 5. James Monroe (1817-1825) 6. John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) 7. Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
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Warm up Write the first ten Presidents in order. 1. George Washington (1789-1797) 2. John Adams (1797-1801) 3. Thomas Jefferson (1801-1805) 4. James Madison (1809-1817) 5. James Monroe (1817-1825) 6. John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) 7. Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) 8. Martin Van Buren (1837-1841) 9. William Henry Harrison (1841) 10. John Tyler (1841-1845)
Reconstruction 1867-1877
In your own words describe what you think Reconstruction was.
Characteristics of the Reconstruction Era • End of the Civil War • 13th, 14th and 15th amendment • Allowing the South in the Union • Radical Reconstruction • Andrew Johnson • Sharecropping • Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
Difficult post Civil War Questions: • Should the slaveholders be punished or forgiven? 2. What rights should be granted to free African-Americans 3. How could the war torn nation be brought back together?
Black Codes • http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/black-codes/ • Write YOUR definition of the Black Codes.
Warm-Up :Define the following. • Amnesty Act • Jim Crow Laws • Poll Tax • Scalawags • Carpetbaggers
Freedman’s Bureau • http://youtu.be/I_iKCXE8MaY • Write your definition of the Freedmen’s Bureau.
Ku Klux Klan • http://www.history.com/videos/the-kkk • Write your definition of the Ku Klux Klan.
Copy these notes in your journal. Morrill Act Hiram Revels 1stAfrican American Senator • 1862 • was also known as the Land Grant College Act. • major boost to higher education in America. • The grant was originally set up to establish colleges.
Civil War Amendments • http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/the-reconstruction-amendments-the-13th-14th-and-15th-amendments.html
http://youtu.be/PmjsOiI7XesHistory Channel: Reconstruction List 25 facts that we have learned from the Civil War and Reconstruction.
You have been a slave all your life and have just received your freedom. Record five days of journal entries describing your new life in the South. Year: 1866 Location: South Carolina Family: Married with Two Children Make sure to include: Black codes, sharecropping, confederacy, cash crop, poll tax, literacy test, segregation, lynching, Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Compromise of 1850, Nullification Crisis, the 13th, 14th, & 15thAmendments, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Freedman's Bureau, KKK, Emancipation Proclamation.