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Warm Up

Warm Up . Respond to the following prompt: Imagine you are a parent and one of your children has run away. What would you do once the child had returned? Would you: 1. Punish the child? 2. Accept a promise that the child wouldn’t run away again ? Explain your response.

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Warm Up

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  1. Warm Up Respond to the following prompt: Imagine you are a parent and one of your children has run away. What would you do once the child had returned? Would you: 1. Punish the child? 2. Accept a promise that the child wouldn’t run away again? Explain your response.

  2. African Americans During the Civil War • Eventually North allowed enlistment10% of Northern army. • Southern forces executed black soldiers as opposed taking them as PoWs. • Emancipation came to Southern blacks with the northern army. • The Emancipation Proclamation didn't allow slaves to leave the plantation.

  3. Politics of the North • Lincoln had opponents up North • "Radical Republicans" • Lincoln wasn't doing enough to win • Wasn’t helping blacks • Northern Democrats split over the war • "War Democrats" supported Lincoln and the war • "Peace Democrats" opposed Lincoln

  4. Election of 1864 • Lincoln against Gen. George McClellan (whom Lincoln had fired). • McClellan was the Democratic candidate. • Said Lincoln was mismanaging the war. • "Copperheads" "struck at Lincoln's heels.“ • "Butternut Region"—southern Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.

  5. Lincoln Wins Election of 1864 • "Union Party"  joined Republicans with War Democrats. • "You don't change horses midstream."

  6. The War Ends • April 1865, Gen. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia. • After the surrender, Lincoln was assassinated. • Shot by John Wilkes Booth • Lincoln became an instant martyr • Southerners initially glad BUT things were worse for the South without Lincoln.

  7. Effects of the Civil War • The Civil War was immensely costly in many ways… • 600,000 lives • $15 billion dollars, • long-lasting animosity • Destroyed the South • There were some benefits to the Civil War… • It showed resilience of U.S. • Slavery officially ends

  8. Matrix • Using the Blue Book and the textbook, complete the chart on the Reconstruction Plans • Presidential Plan alludes to Lincoln’s plans • Congressional Plan is that of the Radical Republicans

  9. Reconstruction Writing • Looking at the two plans for reconstruction, pretend that you are a concerned citizen writing a letter to Congress. • In the letter support one plan, explain why it is the best plan of action.

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