RECONSTRUCTION-

LESSON ONE

Essential Questions

1. Predict and identify many of the struggles

that Lincoln will face when attempting to

unite the Union after the Civil War.

2. Compare/Contrast the differences between

sharecropping and tenant farming.

3. Give examples of the positive effect of the

Freedmen’s Bureau. To what extent did the

Freedmen’s Bureau help the freedmen?

4. Compare/Contrast the differences between

Lincoln and Johnson’s Reconstruction plans How

were they different and yet alike?

5. Analyze the impact of Reconstruction on

Georgia and other southern states in relation

to the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment.

Describe the role of Radical Republicans

during reconstruction.

6. Explain the rise and fall role of leadership

role of Henry McNeal Turner and other black

legislators during the Reconstruction Era.

7. Describe what factors lead to the rise of the

Ku Klux Klan and evaluate the impact of their

intimidation tactics.

AKS SS8H6 The student will analyze the impact of the Civil War

and Reconstruction on Georgia.

Analyze the impact of Reconstruction on Georgia and other

southern states, emphasizing Freedmen’s Bureau;

sharecropping and tenant farming; Reconstruction plans; 13th,

14th, and 15th amendments to the constitution; Henry McNeal

Turner and black legislators; and the Ku Klux Klan

Reconstruction Lab

Step One: Put the puzzle together.

Step Two: What problems do you see?

Step Three: Hypothesis what might have caused the

different problems.

Step Three: Create two ways to fix this problem.

Will the puzzle ever be the same again even with

your solution? Why or why not.

The South Post Civil War

The Georgia to which the war-weary Confederate soldiers returned was not as they had left it. Fields lay in ruins.

Most houses were badly run down or had been destroyed. Railroad tracks lay twisted, bridges had been burned, cotton mills and factories were closed or burned.

There was not enough food, and many people were starving. Many banks had closed their doors.

The Confederacy had a war debt of over $700 million, and Georgia faced a debt of $20 million so Georgia had NO money to help citizens rebuild.

Freedmen

Former slaves were now free but they had no where to go.

Many stayed on the plantations and worked for food and housing.

Some traveled to find relatives sold to other farms.

Most could not read or write and lacked any formal education.

Slave to Sharecrop Farmer

Activate your

Reading

Strategies.

1. How was life

different for a

sharecrop farmer

than a slave?

2. What was the

difference

between a Tenant

Farmer and

Sharecrop

Farmer?

Presidential Reconstruction

President Lincoln believed that southern states should be admitted back into the union and the union should be reconcile their differences and become whole again.

Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction

Lincoln:

1. If citizen took oath they

were automatically

pardoned.

2. When 10% of state took

the oath of allegiance the

state was rejoined into the

Union.

3. All high ranking officials

HAD to take the oath of

allegiance.

Many Disagree with Lincoln

Radical Republicans

Radical Republicans were

northerners who thought that the

south should be punished after

the Civil War.

They created the Wade-Davis

bill to punish the south but

Lincoln does not sign it.

Lincoln loses the respect of some

in congress and they begin to

distrust Lincoln and his plan for

reconstruction.

The Freedman’s Bureau is Established

The Freedman’s Bureau was created to provide basic needs to freed men such as food, clothing, and shelter.

Later, the Freedman’s Bureau would begin to educate freedmen and provide them with skills in a different profession other than picking cotton.

Goal: The goal of the freedman Bureau was to help freemen live a more successful life than in the past

Reconstruction

After a while, the bureau’s focus changed:

1. It became concerned mainly with helping the freedmen adjust to their new circumstances.

2. It focused on educating the freedmen.

How did they do this?

1. The bureau set up over 4,000 primary schools, 64 industrial schools, and 74 teacher-training institutions for young African Americans.

2. In addition, the federal government spent over $400,000 to help establish teacher-training centers.

The North Sends Help

Northerners and missionary societies helped by sending both money and teachers to help train the freedmen.

In 1867, the American Missionary Association sponsored the chartering of Georgia’s Atlanta University and Morehouse College.

Cause and Effect

Cause: African Americans

both young and old

began to attend school.

Effect: Towards the end of

Reconstruction many

African Americans became

more educated and better

trained the poor whites

who refused to attend

schools

Northerners Are treated Unfairly in

the South.

Northerners who came

down to south were

treated very unfairly by

white southerners.

White southerners did not

want anyone helping the

freedmen.

Often times they were

intimidated and assaulted

for helping the freedmen.

Lincoln’s Assassination

Lincoln was an advocate

for the south and wanted

to help both races

rebuild as equals.

The south does not

support equality and

responds by

assassinating President

Lincoln.