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Warm up: Success or Failure

Warm up: Success or Failure. Point/ Counter point Page : Which two arguments do you think are the strongest for each side? Which side do you agree with? What do you think could have been done to ensure success? Do you think it is better that reconstruction failed? Why?.

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Warm up: Success or Failure

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  1. Warm up:Success or Failure Point/ Counter point Page: Which two arguments do you think are the strongest for each side? Which side do you agree with? What do you think could have been done to ensure success? Do you think it is better that reconstruction failed? Why?

  2. Major result of war: • Federal government’s power over states was strengthened

  3. Laws enforced on south • 13 and 14th amendment • Military districts • Pay off war debt • Do you think the south complied with these laws?

  4. Official end- • Hayes- Tilden Compromise of 1877

  5. Hiram Revels • First African American Senator to be elected!!

  6. Reconstruction key points • Lincoln Assassinated 1865 • President Andrew Johnson begins reconstruction - faces impeachment/acquittal • Southern States readmitted • Ulysses S. Grant elected president • Government becomes corrupted

  7. Key Points continued • 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments ratified • Ku Klux Klan created and becomes a force • Debtors want greenbacks- Gold becomes currency • Panic of 1873- More debt than people could handle- closing banks and another depression

  8. Key Points… • Hiram Revels seated on the Senate 1870 • House becomes mainly democratic- “redemption” • Rutherford B. Hayes elected president • Samuel Tilden won popular vote but lost electoral • Compromise of 1877- ended reconstruction

  9. Finally… • Home rule- South can run gov. no federals watching • Restricted rights of freed African Americans

  10. RECONSTRUCTION FAILED

  11. Key Term Categories Take the following key terms and put them in categories as you see them related.

  12. Count off by 4 • Go to your group corners #2 #3 #1 #4

  13. Sit down • As a group you will write on sheets in each corner • Each sheet has a topic • Write as many events/terms as you can in a minute • I will call time- move on to the next corner • #1 moves to #2, 2 to 3, 3to 4, 4 to 1… you must get to every corner

  14. Using what you know… • Complete this reading guide.. • Hand it in when you are finished.

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