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Reconstruction

Reconstruction. Bell Work: Read the following poem and answer the questions. Daily Agenda: Civil War Quiz ( Quizzy -very little) “Better Angels of our Nature…” “O Captain, my Captain…” Reconstruction overview. Civil War Quizzy. 1. During what years did the Civil War take place?

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Reconstruction

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  1. Reconstruction Bell Work: Read the following poem and answer the questions

  2. Daily Agenda: Civil War Quiz (Quizzy-very little) “Better Angels of our Nature…” “O Captain, my Captain…” Reconstruction overview

  3. Civil War Quizzy • 1. During what years did the Civil War take place? • 2. List 3 causes of the Civil War as discussed in class. • 3. List 2 strengths of the North and 2 for the South at the beginning of the war. • 4. What strategies did each side attempt to use? • 5. What was one of the outcomes of the battles in the first 2 years? • 6. What year is considered the turning point of the war? (I called this potentially the most important year in U.S. History) • 7. Why is that year considered the turning point?

  4. Civil War Quizzy • 8. What happened to the “dream of the South” after Gettysburg? • 9. How did the Union respond when the South surrendered at Appomatox? • (can be soldiers, citizens, Gen. Grant) • 10. Where did Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address? • 11. What was the “new birth of freedom” that Lincoln spoke of in the G.A.?

  5. Friday Oct. 8, 2010 Reconstruction: Crossroads of our Nation…

  6. Spark 9 • 1. Write down these objectives: • Understand Reconstruction Era as an attempt to put the nation back together after the C.W. • Investigate the different plans for Reconstruction • Understand the ways white Southerners attempted to recover Antebellum power structures and social hierarchy • Understand the events that signaled the end of the Rec. era.

  7. Spark 9 # 2: Themes of Reconstruction • Copy down the following themes: • Compassionate Reconstruction v. Militant/Radical Reconstruction • President Johnson vs. Congress • Plight of the Freedmen • Lost Cause- Southern Response to Reconstruction • Failure of Reconstruction (Tilden Compromise)

  8. Better Angels of our Nature…

  9. Discussion Questions… • 1.Who was Walt Whitman and what did he do in the war? • 2.Who is the captain Whitman refers to? • 3.What does the ship symbolize? • 4.What was the prize won? • 5.How does this poem demonstrate the emotion of shock?

  10. O Captain! My Captain! “O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rock, The prize we sought is won, The port is near, The bell I hear, The people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, The vessel grim and daring;

  11. O Captain! My Captain! • But O heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

  12. Discussion Questions… • 1.Who was Walt Whitman and what did he do in the war? • American Poet, bro. wounded at Fred., spent war visiting soldiers and vets, wrote poems about war • 2.Who is the captain Whitman refers to? • Abe Lincoln • 3.What does the ship symbolize? • The nation- • 4.What was the prize won? • Preserving the Union-Civil War over, South back in Union • 5.How does this poem demonstrate the emotion of shock? • Line w/ “heart, heart, heart…”

  13. Preview Questions… • 1. Map/Timeline on p. 198-199 • What states were considered “the South” for Reconstruction purposes? • 2.What is a Radical Republican? • 3.What is a carpetbagger? • 4.What’s a sharecropper? • 5.What is a scalawag?

  14. Writing Prompts- Common Assessment Pay attention to the following themes over the next few days… • 1. How did white Southerners attempt to reestablish racial supremacy (virtual slavery) in the South? • 2. What event(s) signaled the end of Reconstruction?

  15. 1.What is a Radical Republican? • From Lincoln’s party, believed war fought over moral issue of slavery, main goal of Reconstruction should be TOTAL restructuring of society to guarantee black people true equality • 2.What is a carpetbagger? • Northern Republicans that moved to south after the war-often seen as greedy men just trying to profit from Southern misery and gain power • 3.What’s a sharecropper? • Farmed some portion of the planter’s land-as payment they were promised a “share” of the harvest, also received housing in return • Close supervision, harsh punishment, fines, unfair evictions, forced into debt-could not leave til debt paid so trapped on plantation • What Antebellum system does “Sharecropping” look/sound like?? • 4.What is a scalawag? • In South after war to be white and republican was to be a traitor

  16. Regular History • Read Chapter 5 and Sections 1, 2 • Define: Reconstruction, pardon, Radical Republicans, pocket veto, Freedmen’s Bureau, black codes, 14th Amendment, civil rights, impeach, 15th Amendment, carpetbagger, scalawag • Create a Venn Diagram comparing the Reconstruction plans of Lincoln and Johnson…

  17. Comparison Diagram

  18. Radical Reconstruction • Afterwards, describe how Radical Reconstruction attempted to punish the South. • Give the specific legislation.

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