Lesson on Wednesday, January 10, 2018

RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION

Aim: What goals did Republican policymakers, ex-Confederates, and freepeople pursue during Reconstruction? To what degree did each succeed?

Bell Ringer: Review Journal 75. (5 min) A: The 14th Amendment won passage in Congress on account of the systematic violence against freepeople and their advocates throughout the South. The amendment sought to protect freepeople by guaranteeing them the right of citizenship under federal law. The amendment served to warn white terrorists that the federal government protected its citizens, even if state governments refused to do so.

Agenda:

1. Let's discuss Long Essay Question 3 (5 min) / due Friday by 4pm.

INTRO TO LEQ (15% OF YOUR EXAM GRADE, 35 MINUTES, TAKE 5 MINUTES TO SKETCH OUT AN OUTLINE AND THESIS, 30 MINUTES TO WRITE THE ESSAY. 

SYNTHESIS: ESSAY SHOULD FLOW WELL, ARGUMENT SHOULD BE EASILY TRACEABLE, AND IT MUST MAKE A CONNECTION to another period, situation, era, or geographical area. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxIkiGIBH4o (15 min)


BLACK CODES & 14th AMENDMENT REFLECTIONS

Assign groups of students 2, 3, or 4. Have them write a summary of what they have read, ready to present to the class in a 3-5 minute presentation. (20 min)

2. North Carolina Black Codes http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-civilwar/5516

3. Mississippi Black Codes https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/experience/legal/docs6.html

4. The 14th Amendment https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv

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WHY RADICAL?

5. Reconstruction Act of 1867:

A. 5 military district, each under the command of a U.S. general.

B. freedmen suffrage must be guaranteed by state constitutions and denied to ex-Confederates

C. Register all eligible adult male

D. Supervise state constitutional conventions

E. Must ratify the 14th Amendment

6. Tenure of Office Act: Required Senate consent for removal of any federal official whose appointment had required Senate confirmation. See Table 15.1 (Reconstruction Main Ideas)

7. Andrew Johnson Impeachment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvOBAfKbiMo (He was impeached but not convicted, and it established a precedent for future impeachments, Nixon and Clinton)

Exam Alert: On the AP exam, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments are sometimes groups together and referred to as the "Civil War Amendments" 

8. While the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, an exploitative sharecropping system developed in its place that would endure for many generations.

Home Learning:

1. Journal 76 - How and why did federal Reconstruction policies evolve between 1865 and 1870?

2. "Reconstruction Chart" Please submit by Friday, January 12 before 4pm.

3. Complete Long Essay Question 3. Please submit by Friday, January 12 before 4pm.

GOOD SOURCES OF INFORMATION: 

A. Civl War / Reconstruction Videos http://hippocampus.org (videos about the causes and effects of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Black Codes.

B. Andrew Johnson Impeachment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCSQbiybLjY (25 min)

C. The WPA slave narratives give voice to former slaves who lived through Reconstruction. What are the limitations of relying on sources that were recorded decades after the events that happened?

Library of Congress's "Introduction to the WPA Slave Narratives" site includes articles pertaining to the issues associated with this type of source, along with the lsave narratives themselves, organized by state.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/