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Do Now: Grab a worksheet and do the ‘Do Now’

Explore Ulysses S. Grant's presidency, Reconstruction's end, key events, and the Compromise of 1877. Analyze the impact of scandals, economic challenges, and political maneuvers post-Civil War.

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Do Now: Grab a worksheet and do the ‘Do Now’

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  1. Do Now: Grab a worksheet and do the ‘Do Now’ Objectives: Students will be able to...(1) explain Grant's presidency (2) analyze a map for key information Homework: Guided reading 12.4 (DUE WEDNESDAY) Test Thursday (Chapter 12)

  2. Republicans Split • Expanded programs it started during Civil War – tariffs, bank regulations, railroads, etc. • Kept taxes on Alcohol/Tobacco (“Sin Taxes”) • Liberal Republicans – Didn’t agree with all taxes • Why?: Because they benefited only the wealthy – Poor were crushed

  3. Scandals & Panic!!!!!!!!!!!!! • William Belknap (Secretary of War) – Took bribes from merchants at army posts • “Whiskey Ring” – Whiskey makers and government officials filed false tax papers to keep millions of $$$$ • Panic of 1873 – Economic Depression • Banks Closed • Stores closed • People panicked • RESULT: Democrats won back House of Reps

  4. Reconstruction Ends • Review – Ulysses S. Grant • Democrats get rule back • Intimidation, stuffing ballots, bribing voters, stealing boxes • Won back white farm owners • Claim: It’s a struggle white vs. African Americans • Democrats able to stop enforcement of Reconstruction • Why?

  5. Election of 1876 (Map Activity)Pg. 405 • Identify candidates and write them in boxes • Give each candidate a color • Label all the states • Color the states Tilden won • Color the states Hayes won • Color the disputed states

  6. Compromise of 1877 • Tilden won 184 votes • Hayes Won 165 votes • 20 ‘Disputed’ Votes • 19 in Republican areas • Created a committee to investigate (8 Rep, 7 Dem) • They voted for Hayes  both houses of congress had to approve • Many think a deal was struck (Some Democrats needed to support Republicans) • Soldiers taken out of south

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  8. Do Now: Grab a worksheet from the front! Objectives: Students will be able to...(1) explain the "New South" (2) analyze text for key information Homework: Test Thursday (Chapter 12)

  9. What was the South like before the Civil War?

  10. “New South” – Henry Grady • Needed industry • Alliance between powerful southerners and northern financiers • Changes: • Railroads: 1890: 40,000 miles • Iron/steel factories • Tobacco plants • Cotton mills • Still mostly agricultural

  11. Define the following terms and use them in a historically accurate sentence • Tenant farmers • Sharecroppers • Furnishing merchants • Crop liens • Debt peonage

  12. Ulysses S. Grant – Presidents Series

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