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Quiz

• 10 minutes

Mini Posters

• What does a country look like after a war? What did the U.S. need to do after the Civil War?

• Identify 3-5 major areas on which the U.S. needed to focus after the War came to an end.

• Create a poster in your group to show your chosen areas.

So what can we do about these issues?

Agenda

• Post Civil War: Picture• Changing the government• What is an amendment?• Reconstruction Amendments• Let’s play a game• Effectiveness of Reconstruction Amendments

Before we start…

• Homework: Vocabulary (index cards or paper)• Word, definition, picture or symbol

– 13 Amendment - Reconstruction

– 14 Amendment - New South (p. 570)

– 15 Amendment - Impeach(ment)

– Radical Republican - Carpetbagger (p. 564)

– Freedmen’s Bureau - Scalawag (p. 564)

The government of the United States has decided to make a change to the country's

government. How would the government go about making this change?

(Think about changes to the nation’s government, like freedom of speech)

What is an Amendment?

• Change to the Constitution• First 10 are the Bill of Rights• What kinds of situations after the Civil War

would have led to the passage of an Amendment?

Reconstruction Amendments

• Amendments 13, 14, and 15

13th Amendment

• Ratified December 6, 1865• "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,

except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

• Abolishes slavery

14th Amendment

• Ratified July 9, 1868• Grants citizenship to all people born or

naturalized in the United States• Forbids denial of life, liberty, or property,

without due process of law• Equal protection

15th Amendment

• Ratified February 3, 1870 • "right of citizens of the United States to vote

shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

• Effective?

Need help remembering?

Free Citizens Can Vote

Let’s Play a Game!

Were these Amendments effective?