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Unit 7: The Reconstruction Period

Unit 7: The Reconstruction Period. SS8H6: The student will analyze the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Georgia .

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Unit 7: The Reconstruction Period

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  1. Unit 7: The Reconstruction Period SS8H6: The student will analyze the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Georgia. c. Analyze the impact of Reconstruction on Georgia and other southern states, emphasizing Freedmen’s Bureau; sharecropping and tenant farming; Reconstruction plans; 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the constitution; Henry McNeal Turner and black legislators; and the Ku Klux Klan.

  2. Warm-up • Discussion Question-If you were the President of the United States of America in 1865, what kind of punishment(s) would you give members of the Confederate States of America’s government and military for seceding from the Union? Please be prepared to share your response with the class.

  3. Assassination of President Lincoln NAME: Abraham Lincoln BIRTH: February 12, 1809 in Kentucky DEATH: April 15, 1865 in Washington, D.C. Nickname: Honest Abe and The Great Emancipator http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_lincoln_1.html http://www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln-assassination • On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was assassinated in Washington, D.C. • The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, ending the American Civil War. • http://americancivilwar.com/north/abraham_lincoln_assassination.html

  4. Reconstruction Period • 1865 to 1877- Rebuilding the South physically, economically, and politically after the Civil War • Due to damages caused by the war and Sherman’sMarch to the Sea, the South’s railroads, cities and fields were in ruins. • Freedmen (former slaves) and Southern whites needed help.

  5. Reconstruction Period Facts to Know President Andrew Johnson • Vice President Andrew Johnson became the President when President Lincoln was assassinated. • President Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan required all Southern states to: • Ratify (approve) the 13th Amendment (Slavery not allowed in the USA) • Cancel the Ordinance of Secession (Rejoin the USA) • Write new state Constitutions with a section abolishing (ending) slavery.

  6. Reconstruction Period Facts to Know • Congress created the Freedmen’s Bureau to help freedmen (former slaves) and poor whites get food, clothing, and shelter. • Plantation owners needed workers to grow and harvest crops, so they hired: • Sharecroppers- farmed a plot of land for the landowner and received a portion of the crop. • Tenant Farmers- farmedthe land of landowner, but paid rent with cash or with a portion of the crops. They owned their own equipment and farm animals.

  7. Henry McNeal Turner, an African American, was elected as the first Georgia senator in 1868 for the General Assembly. • 3 Amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution during the ReconstructionPeriod: • 13th Amendment- Banned slavery in the USA (1865) • 14th Amendment- All persons born in the USA are citizens of the USA (1866). • 15th Amendment- All male citizens of the USA are allowed to vote (no matter their race, 1870). • Ku Klux Klan was created in 1866 by Confederate war veterans who used terror and violence to keep freedmen from voting, holding political office, and exercising their constitutional rights.

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