Reconstruction  1865-1877

    What did Robert E. Lee believe was
                the duty of everyone? p314     

to unite and restore the rest of the country together

 Reconstruction  is the process of restoring
        the Confederate States back into the Union.

    1.  Lincoln started the reconstruction
    2.  Congress finished reconstruction

    South's problems
    1.  Destruction:  the south was devastated     
       Gen Sherman's March to the Sea, 60 mile swath of scorched earth policy


    2.  plight of the freedmen ;   3 1/2 mil
            former slaves called freedmen.
Watch 30 min Reconstruction video:

    Read the Sudden Freedom,
                    Sudden Responsibility on page 315
    1.  What was the name of Washington's
                   autobiography?
            Up From Slavery
    2.  How did the slaves get the word they
         were free? emancipation proclamation 
    3.  Why was wild rejoicing replaced with
             a feeling of gloom?  
    there was great responsibility with being free

What were the important constitutional
        questions? p 316
 Had the southern states actually seceded from the Union? Whose jurisdiction was reconstruction? Pres or Congress?
    

    President Lincoln's reconstruction plan

    1.  make reconstruction as easy as possible
    2.  have the southern states start functioning
         again as loyal states as quickly as possible
    3.  pardon all southerners who would take
                        an oath of loyalty
    4.  when 10% take the oath a new state
                    gov could be set up
    5.  prohibit slavery in each state. 
        Civil War Amendments
                13th no slavery  1865
                            14th gave freed slaves civil rights  1868
                15th freedmen the right to vote   1870

Abraham Lincoln's sudden death
    1.  Andrew Johnson assumes the Presidency
    2.  Congress (Radicals) use the situation
            to take control of reconstruction.
    3.  Black Codes began to spring up in the south
        laws passed by southern states to keep 
                    freedmen from voting


    Congress' plan for reconstruction

    1.  divided the south into 5 military districts
    2.  each state was to write a new constitution
    3.  grant freedmen the right to vote.
    4.  ratify the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
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Lesson Objectives Students will learn OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to: 1. list 2. explain the difference between 3. describe the 4. chart on a map the 5. define the terms 6. Explain the significance of Knowledge: Recall of data. Comprehension: Understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words. Application:
Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the workplace. Analysis:
Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences.  Synthesis:
Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.

Evaluation:
Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.

Remember : Recognizing, Recalling
Understand : Interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, explaining
Apply : Executing, implementing
Analyze : Differentiating, organizing, attributing
Evaluate : checking, critiquing
Create: generating, planning, producing