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Have a seat but be prepared to move. New Seating Chart. You are a Southerner at the end of the Civil War. What does the South look like at the end of the war? . Agenda. Becoming a Southerner Review: 4 Reconstruction Plans Homework Check Leadership: Instability and Change Reform Movements
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Have a seat but be prepared to move New Seating Chart
You are a Southerner at the end of the Civil War. What does the South look like at the end of the war?
Agenda • Becoming a Southerner • Review: 4 Reconstruction Plans • Homework Check • Leadership: Instability and Change • Reform Movements • Political Cartoon Lens • Jigsaw
Leaders: Instability and Change • 3 Reconstruction Presidents • Lincoln Assassination: April 15, 1865 • Good leader; didn’t get long in office • Johnson • Conflict with Congress • Impeachment • Grant Presidency • Scandal • Constant change to Reconstruction policies
Johnson Impeachment • Johnson v. Radical Republicans • Johnson: “white man’s government” • Radical Republicans: rights for freedmen • Reconstruction Acts and presidential vetoes • Tenure of Office Act in 1867 • Senate permission needed to dismiss certain government positions • Johnson dismisses Secretary of War Stanton • Stanton supported Radical Republicans
Johnson Impeachment • February 24, 1868 • Impeach: To charge a public official with improper conduct in office before a proper tribunal • Next step = Trial before Senate • 1 vote away from dismissing Johnson
Grant Presidency • Scandals • Presidential Pardons
Southern Reforms • Freedmen’s Bureau • Investment • Schools • Infrastructure (roads, bridges, water sources) • Economic Diversification • New South • Textiles
How is Reconstruction seen? • Group activity • Look at political cartoons and decide how they portray Reconstruction • What events in Reconstruction do they show? • What do they make the reader think about Reconstruction? Good, bad? Effective, ineffective? • Jigsaw next
1 2 My friend, I think you had better use all means to get ashore; even if it is a black man that saves you. Give me your hand master, now that I have got a good hold of this tree I can help you out of your trouble. You go to thunder! Do you think I’ll let an infernal Nigger take Me by the hand? –no sir-ree, this is a white man’s government. Rule or Ruin Carpet Bag and Bayonet Rule The Solid South 3 4
Jigsaw • New groups- 1 member for each cartoon • Explain your cartoon to group • Listen to group members explain their cartoons • Take notes