Reconstruction Class notes
Today we also introduced the optional extra credit project for semester one. Details can be found by clicking the link on the sidebar (if on a mobile phone, you will need to view the full site). This will be due no later than January 23rd and is worth up to 20 points in the culminating category.
Homework due Thursday: Read sections 11.2-11.5 of TCI’s History Alive and detail the following with good notes. You may copy the questions and answer them in your notes or take your usual reading notes, focused on these topics.
1.What was Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan?
2.What happened with the Freedman’s Bureau?
3.Explain black codes and their impact.
4.Describe Congressional Reconstruction.
5.Discuss the Johnson impeachment.
6.Freedmen, Scalawags, carpetbaggers, problems of sharecropping
7.Rise of Ku Klux Klan
8.Describe the end of Reconstruction and Jim Crow Laws
9.Plessy v. Ferguson
Homework due Friday: Read the UDC Catechisms for Children (handed out Wednesday). In a brief paragraph (roughly half a page) explain, using evidence from the catechisms, what this tells us about the South's view of the war and the perspective they were determined to hold onto.
Homework due Friday: Read the UDC Catechisms for Children (handed out Wednesday). In a brief paragraph (roughly half a page) explain, using evidence from the catechisms, what this tells us about the South's view of the war and the perspective they were determined to hold onto.
