Transcript Rebuilding the Union

• Learning Goals:
1. Identify the goals of
presidential and Congressional
Reconstruction.
2. Describe how Reconstruction
affected national politics and
governments in the South.
Journal Question: What does it
mean to be free? How do you know?
Explanation: Four million slaves
were set free with the 13th
amendment. Most of them had
never known freedom.
• Journal Question: The South was
devastated by the Civil War. Abraham
Lincoln had a plan to help bring the
South back into the Union. Create
your plan that would integrate former
slaves into the South and help the
economy recover.
Journal Question: Imagine that your
house has been knocked down by a
powerful storm. Would you rebuild
it to be exactly like the original or
change the design? Explain your
answer.
Explanation: After the Civil War the
U.S. was faced with a similar
decision.
• Journal Question:
Imagine that the Civil
War had never been
fought. What would
the U.S. be like today?
1. Abraham
Lincoln’s plan to
reunite the country
was to pardon
confederate
officials and allow
Confederate states
to send
representatives to
Congress.
2. White
Southerners
This person
is reading a
had to pledge
pledge.
their loyalty to
the United
States in
A Reconstruction
political cartoon
order to have which depicts a
freedman going to
their property cast his vote while
the disenfranchised
returned to
former Confederate
glumly looks on.
them.
Describe a time when you had a fight
or argument with someone over an
issue. Did you stay friends or not
talk to them anymore? The South is
forced to rejoin the Union even
though they would rather keep
slavery.
Think about your answer and then turn to a neighbor
and share your thoughts. We will share as a group.
3. The Freedmen
Bureau’s role in
Reconstruction was
that it operated schools
to educate former
enslaved people,
guaranteed land, tools,
and seed to all formerly
enslaved people, and
helped them get jobs.
Andrew
Johnson is
kicking the
Freedmen’s
Bureau
with his
veto.
4. Southern whites used Black
Codes to restrict the freedom of
African Americans after the Civil
War.
• black codes
A cartoon about
carpetbagging.
Why do you think the government
allowed the South to put Black Codes in
place? The Union defeated the South
but allowed them to continue restricting
the rights of African Americans.
Describe a time when you argued with
your parents over an unfair rule in your
house.
Think about your answer and then turn to a neighbor
and share your thoughts. We will share as a group.
5. Moderate
Republicans
supported the states
right to govern
themselves. Radical
Republicans wanted
the federal government
to play an active role in
remaking Southern
politics and society.
Voter registration
in the South.
“We have turned, or are about to turn,
loose four million slaves without a hut to
shelter them or a cent in their
pockets…if we leave them to the
legislation of their late masters, we had
better have left them in bondage.”
6. Radical Republicans were the group
that made decisions about
Reconstruction that made the above
Radical- advocating extreme
changes in laws, government, or
society. Define radical in your own
words. Can you think of any ideas or
groups that are considered radical
today?
Think about your answer and then turn to a neighbor
and share your thoughts. We will share as a group.
7. The House of
Representatives
impeached
President Johnson
when he violated
the Tenure of
Office Act by firing
his Secretary of
War.
8. The Fourteenth
Amendment
followed the
Civil Rights Act
of 1866 because
Congress
wanted equality
to be protected
by the
Constitution.
When should someone be removed
from power as a leader? Describe a
situation you were involved in where
the leader was replaced or a time
when you think this should happen.
Think about your answer and then turn to a
neighbor and share your thoughts. We will
share as a group.
CLOSURE ACTIVITY
Gallery Walk
Choose one slide or one topic
from the notes. Take a white
sheet of paper and create an
exhibit for a museum. We will
use these for a gallery walk.