Ulysses S. Grant was an effective president who helped end Reconstruction. The Compromise of 1877 formally ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South in exchange for allowing Rutherford B. Hayes to become president after a disputed election in 1876.
VERY Brief presentation about the Emancipation Proclamation and British position. Includes Common Core Practice. For use with the Americans section 11.2.
VERY Brief presentation about the Emancipation Proclamation and British position. Includes Common Core Practice. For use with the Americans section 11.2.
PowerPoint on the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War. Topics addressed are President Lincoln, President Johnson, the Radical Republicans, the KKK, Black Codes, Jim Crow and more.
AHSGE Social Studies ch. 6 Civil War and Reconstruction
1. Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Agree Disagree 1. Ulysses Agree Disagree
____ ____ S. Grant was ____ ____
an extremely effective president.
Agree Disagree 2. The Compromise Agree Disagree
of 1877 ended
Reconstruction _____ ____
2. Tuesday, February 3, 2010
Agree Disagree 1. Vicksburg Agree Disagree
____ ____ was considered ____ ____
the turning point of the Civil War.
Agree Disagree 2. Morrill Land Agree Disagree
Grant act said that
each state was
required to fund at
least one public institution.
3. AHSGE Chapter 6
Civil War and Reconstruction
Decisive Battles of the Civil War
First Battle of Bull Run
1st battle of the war
– Humiliating defeat for
the North and almost led
to a Confederate invasion
of Washington, D.C.
Shiloh
– Bloodiest battle of Civil War.
20,000 total causalities.
No clear winner.
4. Chunk #1 Turn to page 73 Vicksburg
History Frame – Answer the
following questions from the
passage you have read.
Setting Where and When? -
Characters Who are the key players? –
Plot What happened? –
Outcome What were the results? –
5. Antietam
– Bloodiest one day battle in the history of the United
States. After this Union victory, Lincoln issued the
Emancipation Proclamation (document which freed all
slaves in the confederate States while maintaining
slavery in the border states loyal to the Union.
Vicksburg
– Union victory.
Union now had complete
control of the
Mississippi River.
6. Gettysburg
– Three day battle where the Union was
victorious. Considered the turning point of
the war because the Confederacy no longer
had the ability to launch an offensive into
Union territory.
Gettysburg Address
- speech given by Lincoln
at dedication of Union
cemetery to honor the soldiers who had died in
the Civil War. He affirmed his belief in
democracy and his desire to see the union
reunited.
7. Atlanta
– Union General Sherman burned Atlanta to the ground,
destroying the ability of the confederacy to supply
the war effort.
Sherman’s March
– Sherman marched 60,000 soldiers from Chattanooga,
TN through Atlanta to Savannah, GA, destroying
everything in a 60 mile-wide path. This act broke the
spirit of the Confederates.
8. Surrender at Appomattox –
Courthouse where General Robert E.
Lee surrendered his Confederate
troops to Union General Ulysses S.
Grant ending the Civil War. The North
won.
9. Social and Political Changes during the Civil War
Habeas Corpus
– guaranteed that a person could not be imprisoned
without appearing in court. President Lincoln
declared martial law in Maryland and suspended the
right of habeas corpus (the right to hold citizens
without charging them with a crime) after
Confederate sympathizers attacked Union troops in
Baltimore.
Drafted
– forced to serve in the
military. First time in history during
the Civil War.
10. Homestead Act
– stated that anyone who would agree to
cultivate (farm) 160 acres of land for five
years would receive title (given) to that land
from the government. This Act accelerated
the settlement of the West.
Morrill Land Grant Act
– Gave each state thousands of acres of land.
Each state had to use this land to fund at
least one public university.
11. Emancipation Proclamation – see
previous notes.
13th Amendment added to the
Constitution that abolished (ended)
slavery.
12. Chunk #2 Cost of War
Gist – Turn to page 76. Read Cost of War, and
write two costs the North and South had as a
result of the Civil War.
North
South
13. Cost of the War
North:
Inflation rose due to the printing of
money because the cost of the war had
grown to 1.3 billion dollars.
Union was restored.
Over 360,000 Union
soldiers died.
15. Life for Emancipated Blacks
“Freedmen” – emancipated (freed) slaves.
Problems:
Widespread illiteracy (unable to read or
write).
Freed slaves had
no money and
owned no land.
16. Few people could hire freedmen and
working for former masters was like
slavery.
Freedman’s Bureau – Established to aid
blacks and whites by providing clothing,
food and money to organize schools,
provide medical care and provide agents
to find work for freed slaves.
17. `
Different Plans for Reconstruction
April 14, 1865 – President
Lincoln assassinated at
Fords’ Theatre by
John Wilkes Booth.
Vice-President Andrew Johnson – new
president for remainder of Lincoln’s term.
Was sympathetic to white Southerners
and wanted a mild form of reconstruction
that allowed whites to maintain their
power and keep blacks out of office.
18. Black Codes – Before Congress could convene,
the state governments in the South passed a
series of Black Codes. These codes made blacks
second-class citizens and limited the rights of
former slaves.
Examples:
Blacks could not own weapons.
Meet together after sundown.
Marry whites.
19. Radical Reconstruction
14th Amendment – all persons born or
naturalized in the United States are
citizens (African Americans are now
citizens of the U.S.)
20. Reconstruction Act
All former Confederate states would be
broken up into five military districts.
Southern States would not be readmitted
until they ratified the 14th Amendment.
Black male citizens must be granted the right
to vote.
Former Confederate officials could not hold
public office.
21. A New Kind of Politics
Hiram R. Revels –
Black senator from
Mississippi who replaced
Jefferson Davis in the
Senate.
15th amendment – guaranteed voting rights to
all citizens regardless of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude.
22. CHUNK #3 Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
Gist – Turn to page 82. Read Carpetbaggers and
Scalawags, and write one statement on each in
the space provided that gives the “gist” or
summary of the selection.
23. Bitter Feeling in the South
Carpetbaggers – people who came from the
North to do business in the South.
Scalawag – Southerners who supported
Reconstruction.
Ku Klux Klan –
organization which used
terrorism and violence to
intimidate blacks and
other minorities.
24. Presidential Election of 1876
Ulysses S. Grant was a strong military
leader but proved to be a very weak
political leader. His presidency was
marked by corruption.
25. Compromise of 1877
In the Election of 1876, Samuel Tilden
(D) and Rutherford B. Hayes (R) ran.
Due to some disputed votes in three
states, Congress appointed an Electoral
Commission to decide the election.
Seven Democrats, seven Republicans and
one Independent.
26. Independent left and was replaced by a
Republican.
Commission decided the votes belonged
to Hayes (R) and he was elected
president.
The Democrats were outraged.
27. In order to keep the peace, Democrats
said they would let Hayes win the
presidency if the Republicans would end
Reconstruction.
This compromise is known as the
Compromise of 1877.
28. Jim Crow Laws – In the south, states
passed laws requiring blacks and whites
to use separate facilities in restaurants,
hospitals, schools etc. These laws
imposed literacy tests and poll taxes
which prevented blacks from voting
despite the 15th amendment.
29. Review
4. Who won the Election of 1865? Why
did it cause a problem?
6. Describe the Jim Crow Laws.