have a seat but be prepared to move
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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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