Unit 11

During Unit 11

In Reconstruction, we will describe the social problems that the South faced after the war. We will be able to identify the Constitutional Amendments of the time period (13th, 14th, and, 15th) and their impact on life in the United States. 

We will be able to identify various government plans to aid with the reconstruction of the United States. Analyze how the Assassination of President Lincoln ushered in the Reconstruction Era. 

We will detail the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments which guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, the outlawing of slavery, making all freed slaves U.S. citizens, and giving free male slaves the right to vote. 

Analyze General Gordon Granger’s arrival in Galveston, Texas on June 19,1865 and reading of “General order Number 3” thus freeing all of the slaves in Texas. 

This momentous day became known as “Juneteenth” which is now a National Holiday. 

We will examine President Andrew Johnson’s role and his impeachment. Detail the rise of the Radical Republicans in Congress. Compare and contrast Presidential reconstruction to Congressional reconstruction and its attempts to rebuild the South. 

How The Freedmen's Bureau was created to help the freed southern slaves. The South’s use of Black codes and Jim Crow Laws to disenfranchise the freed slaves. Examine how sharecropping was used on the freedmen as a legal form of slavery that could never be escaped from. Identify the role of Hiram Rhodes Revels as the first African American senator from Mississippi. 

We will examine the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant and finally that of Rutherford B. Hayes who officially ended the Reconstruction Era.