Warm Up

What impact did the 54th Regiment have

on the Civil War?
What impact did they have on the rights
of African Americans?

Today in History
December 4th, 1992
Bush orders US troops to Somalia
Lasted 15 months

Reconstruction
Part II

Sharecropping
Freed slaves:
No land, money
Sharecropping:
Farm the land,
get housing,
share of crop
Tenant farming:
Farmers pay
rent to farm the land, own crops
they grow

Freedmens Bureau
Provides clothes,
medical care,
food,
education,
land to freed
slaves
Morehouse
College
established
Promise: 40 acres and a mule

White Resistance
Ku Klux
Klan: Used
violence,
threats to
scare blacks,
equal rights
supporters
Lynching
Black Codes: Unwritten rules
barring blacks from certain
activities

Southern Bitterness
Carpetbaggers:
Northerners
who came
South to
do business
Scalawags:
Southerners
who supported
Radical
Republicans

Compromise of 1877
Ended Radical
Reconstruction;
blacks lose new
political gains
Jim Crow laws:
Separate facilities
for blacks, whites
Literacy tests:
Read, write to vote
Poll taxes: Pay $$ to vote
Grandfather clause: No restrictions
for veteran voters, their descendents

Line of Equality
Each time I say something that promoted
equality after the Civil War step towards
the line.
Each time I say something that took
away freedmens rights step back from
the line.

Create 3 #hashtags describing the

picture to the left and its
representation of the black codes.
OR

Create a word collage that describes

the picture to the left and the black
codes. Make the words you feel to be
most important the biggest/boldest.
Use at least 6 words.
How do the black codes and Jim Crow
Laws differ? Provide an example.

OR
Should the KKK be allowed to express
their views and opinions in public?
Why or why not?
Free Speech? Bullying?

Draw a political cartoon

OR
Create a newspaper headline that
represents either the
Civil Rights Movement
OR
a modern day example of injustice.

Independent Work Session: Analyzing Text

The war does not appear to us to be
ended, nor rebellion suppressed. They have
commenced reconstruction on disloyal
principles. If rebel soldiers are allowed to
mumble through oaths of allegiance, and
vote Lees officers into important offices,
and if Legislatures, elected by such voters,
are allowed to define the provisions of the
Amnesty Proclamation, then were our
conquests vain? Already we see the fruits
of the failure on part on Government to
mete out full justice to the loyal blacks, and
retribution to the disloyal whites.
Philip Bell in Witness for Freedom: African

American Voices on Race, Slavery and

Emancipation

Independent Work Session: Analyzing Text

Whose Legislature is this?
Is it the white mans
Legislature or is it a black
mans? ...It is said that
congress never gave us the
right to hold office. I want to
knowif Reconstruction
measures did not base their
action on the ground that no
distinction should be made
on account of race, color or
previous condition! We have built up your
country. We have worked in your fields, and
garnered your harvests, for 250 years! Do we
ask you for compensation? We are willing to
let the dead past bury its dead; but we ask
you, now, for our RIGHTS.
Georgia State Representative
Henry M. Turner

What Do You Think?

Should the KKK be allowed to
express their views and
opinions in public? Why or
why not?
Free Speech?
Bullying?

On Your Own
Take six minutes, and using your notes
and our discussion yesterday and
today, answer the following question:

Was Reconstruction a
success or a failure?
Use specific examples
to support your claim.

Review
1. Which of the following was NOT one of the goals of the
Freedmans Bureau?
A. To provide 40 acres and a mule to former slaves
B. To provide education to newly freed slaves
C. To grant African American women the right to vote
D. To provide food and clothes to unemployed Blacks
2. Which of the following BEST describes the goal of the Ku
Klux Klan?
A. To aid southern white men after the Civil War
B. To terrorize and intimidate Blacks after the Civil War
C. To create all white churches in the former
confederates states
D. To elect white men to Congress
3. What was the effect of the Black Codes?
A. They created a new form of slavery after the Civil War
B. They allowed for the emancipation of southern slaves
C. They established a way for freed slaves to own land
D. They eliminated one cause of sectionalism

4. What is the primary difference between the Black Codes

and the Jim Crow laws?
A. Black Codes supported the 14th amendment while
Jim Crow laws refuted it
B. Black Codes were unwritten rules that restricted
blacks while Jim Crow laws were segregation laws
C. Black Codes restricted African Americans while the
Jim Crow laws protected them.
D. Jim Crow laws were passed in the old Confederate
states while Black Codes were in the Border States
5. Which of the following BEST presents the significance of
the Compromise of 1877?
A. It allowed old Confederate states to enter the Union
only if they did so with a new non-slave state
B. It ended Radical Reconstruction in the South, leading
blacks to lose many new political rights
C. It allowed Blacks to pay rent for the land they farmed
in exchange for keeping the crops they grew
D. It allowed Southern states to vote on whether they
would allow political and social rights to black citizens

Unit 2 Exam
Exam Format:
60 multiple choice
questions
- Worth 1 point each
Choose 5 of 8 IDs
- Worth 8 points each

Unit 1 Exam
Average by Period

nd
2
rd
3
th
4

Period: 88%
Period: 79%
Period: 78%

Unit 1 Exam
Average by Period

Unit 2
Exam

GOAL
nd
2
rd
3
th
4

Period: 88% 90%

Period: 79% 85%
Period: 78% 85%

To Make That Happen

Complete study guide
70% of students who
completed Unit 1 study
guide got an A or B on
test
Focus on IDs
Who, What, Where, When
WHY (Significance)

On Your Own
Rank these initiatives, laws, and tactics from most
important (1) to least important (4) based on your
opinion. Then justify your ranking.

Radical Republicans
13th Amendment (Abolished slavery in all states)
14th Amendment (Gave all blacks citizenship)
Reconstruction Act (Requirements to re-enter Union)
15th Amendment (Gave blacks the right to vote)

Southern governments
Black Codes (Unwritten rules barring blacks from certain
activities)

Literacy tests and polling taxes (Used to prevent

voting by blacks)
KKK (Used violence, threats to scare blacks, equal
rights supporters)
Jim Crow laws (Separate facilities for blacks, whites)

Warm Up
1. Unwritten rules barring black from certain
activities.
a.
b.
c.
d.

Jim Crow laws

Black codes
Ku Klux Klan
Grandfather Clause

2. This ended Radical Reconstruction and

stopped the political gains made by African
Americans.
a.
b.
c.
d.

Compromise of 1850
Jim Crow Laws
Compromise of 1877
Freedmans Bureau

On Your Own
Below are programs and initiatives created by the
Freedmans Bureau, created to aid former slaves
after the Civil War.
Rank the following elements of the freedmans Bureau
from MOST IMPORTANT (1) to LEAST IMPORTANT (4)
based on your opinion. Then justify your ranking.
Established colleges (Morehouse) to educate Black men
Provided food and clothing for those unable to find jobs
Provided access to medical-care facilities and medicine
Negotiated fair labor contracts and land disputes for
African Americans

Next, answer the following questions: Should the

federal government provide similar services as
described in the Freedmans Bureau to
descendants of slaves today? Why or Why not? Be
prepared to justify your answer.