Demo of brief Reconstruction lesson.

1. Reconstruction:
Success or Failure?
Given a the text in Chapter 15 and a list of
Reconstruction's goals and achievements, write a
position statement on whether or not
Reconstruction succeeded in it's goals, identifying
specific examples to support this statement.
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2. What Were the Goals of Reconstruction?
1. Reunite the States
2. Protect and Promote
the Civil Rights of freed
slaves

3. Reconstruction and Civil Rights
• Andrew Johnson and Presidential
Reconstruction
• “Radical” Republicans and
Congressional Reconstruction
• Victories
• Education, Freedman’s Bureau
• Suffrage and Elected Officials
• Conservative Reaction
• Rise of the KKK
• The End of Reconstruction (1877)
• Retreat from Civil Rights and the South

4. Reconstruction as Reunion
• Southern States and the Union
• Peace and Clemency
• Counterfactuals – No Second Civil War
• Mercy for Confederate officials
• Reconstruction and Southern Memory
• Gone with the Wind
"Richmond Virginia damage2" by Russell, Andrew J.,
photographer. - Library of Congress. Licensed under Public
Domain via Wikimedia Commons -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richmond_Virginia_
damage2.jpg#/media/File:Richmond_Virginia_damage2.jpg

5. So what?
• Considered politically?
• Considered socially?
• Legacy for Civil Rights
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment