Unit+7--Reconstruction


 * Unit 7: Reconstruction **


 * January 6--January 16, 2013 **


 * Websites of Interest **
 * Reconstruction: A Statistical Look at Southern Recovery  (Website)
 * Reconstruction: The Second Civil War  (PBS Website)
 * The Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial  (UMKC School of Law Website)
 * [|The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson]  (HarpWeek Website)
 * The Rise & Fall of Jim Crow  (PBS Website)
 * Jim Crow in America  (Library of Congress Collection)


 * Key Vocabulary for Unit 7 **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">13th Amendment, Freedmen’s Bureau, “40 Acres & a Mule,” Presidential Reconstruction, Andrew Johnson, “10 Percent” Plan, Wade-Davis Bill, “State Suicide” Theory, Black Codes, Sharecropping, Radical Republicans, Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens, Moderate Republicans, Congressional Reconstruction, Civil Rights Bill of 1866, 14th Amendment, Military Reconstruction Act, Tenure of Office Act, 15th Amendment, Civil Rights Act of 1875, Compromise of 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, “Scalawags,” “Carpetbaggers,” Ku Klux Klan, Force Acts, Solid South, The “New South, “ The “Lost Cause,” Redeemers, Civil Rights Cases, Jim Crow Laws, Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, Grandfather Clauses, Lynchings, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Booker T. Washington, “Atlanta Compromise,” Plessy V. Ferguson, “Separate But Equal,” W.E.B. DuBois, Niagara Movement, “Talented Tenth,” NAACP **

// **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for January 7, 2014 ** //
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**In Class Activity**

//<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Homework in preparation for January 8, 2014** //
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**In Class Activity**

//**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for January 9, 2014 **//
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">No homework **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for January 10, 2014 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 15, pps. 587-600 **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Homework in preparation for January 14, 2014 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 15, pps. 600-610 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What are the differences between the program enacted by Congress and those proposed by your commission? **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Homework in preparation for January 15, 2014 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 15, pps. 610-616 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reading Quiz **
 * [|Reconstruction Primary Sources] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Be prepared to answer the questions.**


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for January 16, 2014 **


 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 15, pps. 616-622 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reading Quiz **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Webquest (Due Tuesday, January 21, 2014) **

> > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. Identify the following terms, using either the website or your text. > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">a) black codes > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">b) carpetbagger > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">c) 1866 Civil Rights Act > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">d) 1875 Civil Rights Act > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">e) election of 1876 > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">f) "forty acres and a mule" > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">g) Freedmen's Bureau, > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">h) Ku Klux Klan > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">i) Presidential Reconstruction > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">j) Radical Reconstruction > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">k) Sea Islands (Georgia) > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">l) sharecropping > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">m) "solid South," > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">n) 14th Amendment > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">o) 15th Amendment > > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. Visit the website []. Click on "Plantations in Ruins". Click on the section “All Have Suffered.” Briefly summarize the document in 4-5 sentences. > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. At the same website, click on "Plantations in Ruins." Read the Q & A section on the "myths of reconstruction." Which myths did you find most interesting? > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. Describe the 3 "reconstruction amendments". > > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">7. Develop a chart in which you compare/contrast Presidential (Lincoln and Johnson's plans) with Congressional Reconstruction. Use your textbook. > > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">8. Find 2 cartoons that focus on reconstruction. Cut and paste them below. Describe each. Identify the perspective of the cartoonist. > > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">9. Go to the following website: [] Read the introduction. > > <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Foner makes the statement “African Americans were active agents in shaping Reconstruction.” From the website, find three images that explain Foner’s quote. Use 1-3 sentences and explain HOW the images illustrates the truth of Professor Foner’s quote.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Reconstruction Web Quest
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. Visit the site, [] Click on the 1870 tab in the lower left hand corner. Click on the 1870 map. You will move to a window in which you can select a state. Choose one border state and one former slave state. Describe what happened in those states between 1860 and 1870 regarding the number of farms, the value of farm land, the number of factories, the value of manufactured goods. Make a generalization regarding the difference between the impact of the war in the north and in the south.

**<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for Tuesday, January 21, 2014 ** **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Celebration of Knowledge, Chapter 15 ** **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Webquest (above) due on Tuesday ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Homework in preparation for January 17, 2014 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Review **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Chapter 15 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Commentary Due, January 22, 2014 **
 * ** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">A commentary should be about 500 words. It should address the textbook and the primary documents listed below. What should be in a commentary? A good commentary should include a brief discussion of the topic and then it should address at least two of the primary sources for the lesson. It should also make an effort to address some of the questions posted by the textbook author at the beginning of the chapter. It should have a well-stated argument. It should advance an opinion about a particular subject (in this case, Reconstruction) and it should support those ideas with evidence. **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Documents for Reconstruction Unit **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. Savannah Meeting, 1865
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. Savannah Meeting, 1865

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 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. Thomas Nast Cartoons—Reconstruction

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 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. Mississippi Black Codes

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 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. Civil Rights Act, 1866

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 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. The First Vote, 1866

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 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. Worse Than Slavery, 1876