have a seat but be prepared to move

Have a seat but be prepared to move

New Seating Chart

You are a Southerner at the end of the Civil War. What does the South look like at the end of the

war?

Agenda

• Becoming a Southerner• Review: 4 Reconstruction Plans• Homework Check• Leadership: Instability and Change• Reform Movements• Political Cartoon Lens• Jigsaw

Get out your Vocab!

Leaders: Instability and Change• 3 Reconstruction Presidents• Lincoln Assassination: April 15, 1865– Good leader; didn’t get long in office

• Johnson– Conflict with Congress– Impeachment

• Grant Presidency– Scandal

• Constant change to Reconstruction policies

Johnson Impeachment

• Johnson v. Radical Republicans– Johnson: “white man’s government”– Radical Republicans: rights for freedmen– Reconstruction Acts and presidential vetoes

• Tenure of Office Act in 1867– Senate permission needed to dismiss certain

government positions– Johnson dismisses Secretary of War Stanton• Stanton supported Radical Republicans

Johnson Impeachment

• February 24, 1868• Impeach: To charge a public official with

improper conduct in office before a proper tribunal

• Next step = Trial before Senate• 1 vote away from dismissing Johnson

Grant Presidency

• Scandals• Presidential Pardons

Southern Reforms

• Freedmen’s Bureau• Investment– Schools– Infrastructure (roads, bridges, water sources)

• Economic Diversification– New South– Textiles

How is Reconstruction seen?

• Group activity• Look at political cartoons and decide how they

portray Reconstruction

• What events in Reconstruction do they show?• What do they make the reader think about

Reconstruction? Good, bad? Effective, ineffective?

• Jigsaw next

My friend, I think you had better use all means to get ashore; even if it is a black man that saves you.

Give me your hand master, now that I have got a good hold of this tree I can help you out of your trouble.

You go to thunder! Do you think I’ll let an infernal Nigger take Me by the hand? –no sir-ree, this is a white man’s government.

The Solid South

Carpet Bag and

Bayonet Rule

Rule or Ruin

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Jigsaw

• New groups- 1 member for each cartoon• Explain your cartoon to group• Listen to group members explain their

cartoons• Take notes