By Lindsay Thompson

CONFLICTING VIEWPOINTS

Visions for reuniting the nation after the Civil War

Project Description

My project is intended for a 7th grade audience and covers Reconstruction and the conflicting perspectives and viewpoints of the time.

I added a short quiz and links to various sites that provide valuable information about the Reconstruction and these memorable people, or groups of people, in our nation’s history.

Why American History?American History teaches us of the Melting Pot our country is

History helps us understand how we got to the present

History gives us a pattern of possibilities for the future

History is REQUIRED…and a lot of fun!

MenuWhy is it important to know perspectives?

Take a quiz at the end to see what you’ve discovered!

FIRST: to learn about the four groups/people and their visions about the Reconstruction, CLICK HERE!

Feel free to take notes on your graphic organizer.

To access references used CLICK HERE!

Access the quiz by going to the next slide!

Question 1Who taught at and later became the president of

Washington College?

Abraham Lincoln Robert E. Lee Radical RepublicansFrederick Douglass

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After the northern forces surrounded his army, Lee surrendered and eventually took a position at Washington College, which after his death would change their name to Washington and Lee College in his memory.

Read more: http://www.biographyshelf.com/robert_e_lee_biography.html

Question 2Who spoke for human and civil liberties amongst the living –

regardless of race or gender?

Abraham Lincoln Robert E. Lee Radical RepublicansFrederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass was an eloquent spokesperson for abolition (the end of slavery) and equality. He persevered through an early life of slavery to become a celebrated speaker and writer. Relating his experiences as a victim of cruelty, Douglass maintained a strongly moral conviction in undoing the evil of slavery and establishing equality for people of both sexes and all races. He wrote celebrated autobiographical works, beginning with Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), and founded newspapers, including the North Star in 1847. The masthead of the North Star featured the motto, "Right is of no sex. Truth is of no color. God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.“

Read more: http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3441200034/douglass-frederick.html

Question 3Who had the perspective that Southerners need to reconcile

and not continue to fight?

Abraham Lincoln Robert E. Lee Radical RepublicansFrederick Douglass

CORRECT!

In his years at Washington College, Lee taught his students about the importance of working to reunite the states and about how they should teach their children to be unified citizens, with no ill feelings towards the north. In fact, Lee often taught about how war should be avoided at all costs and how war was the saddest and should be the last method ever employed.

Read more: http://www.biographyshelf.com/robert_e_lee_biography.html

Question 4Who had a desire to punish the South for wanting to reunite

the country and coming together as one nation?

Abraham Lincoln Robert E. Lee Radical RepublicansFrederick Douglass

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Both Lincoln and Johnson had foreseen that the Congress would have the right to deny Southern legislators seats in the U.S. Senate or House of Representatives, under the clause of the Constitution that says "Each house shall be the judge of the...qualifications of its own members." This came to pass when, under the leadership of the "Radical Republicans" (who sought to punish the South) refused to seat its elected senators and representatives.

Read more: http://countrystudies.us/united-states/history-68.htm

Question 5Who divided the South into five separate military districts,

putting a Union general in charge of each one?

Abraham Lincoln Robert E. Lee Radical RepublicansFrederick Douglass

CORRECT!

In response, certain groups in the North advocated intervention to protect the rights of blacks in the South. In the Reconstruction Act of March 1867, Congress, ignoring the governments that had been established in the Southern states, divided the South into five districts and placed them under military rule. Escape from permanent military government was open to those states that established civil governments, took an oath of allegiance, ratified the 14th Amendment and adopted black suffrage.

Read more: http://countrystudies.us/united-states/history-68.htm

Question 6In March of 1865, who delivered these words:

“Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.. . .

With malice toward none, with charity for all, . . . let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, . . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. “

Abraham Lincoln Robert E. Lee Frederick Douglass Radical Republicans

CORRECT!

In March 1865, at his second inaugural, Lincoln delivered another speech that might be described as one of the finest in the English language. Once again, as President, he was looking into the future of the country and our nation.

Six weeks later, on the night of 14 April 1865, Good Friday, the president was shot while attending a performance at Ford's Theater in Washington. He died nine hours later. He thus did not live to see how difficult it would be to create a "new life," a "new birth of freedom," in a new America.

Read more: Plans for reconstruction - Abraham Lincoln - war, second http://www.presidentprofiles.com/Washington-Johnson/Abraham-Lincoln-Plans-for-reconstruction.html#ixzz1Q3ee44f2

Question 7Who valued voting rights and fought for the adoption of the

15th constitutional amendment?

Abraham Lincoln Robert E. Lee Radical RepublicansFrederick Douglass

CORRECT!

During the Reconstruction era (1865–77), Douglass was a leader in supporting passage of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, which extended voting rights to African American males, and the efforts of Congress to ensure protection of the rights of these freedmen.

Read more: http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3441200034/douglass-frederick.html

Question 8The idea behind this man/group was that emancipation and

preserving the Union not only liberated the African-Americans, but Whites as well

Abraham Lincoln Robert E. Lee Radical RepublicansFrederick Douglass

CORRECT!

Nowhere would this new life be more beneficial than in the war-ravaged South. There, Lincoln knew, more than in the rest of the country, the interests of blacks and whites were intertwined, and he had come to nurture a faith that the two races would learn to cooperate. Emancipation, Lincoln believed, did not merely liberate the blacks but also the whites. It made the American dream also a southern dream, with a resultant prosperity for all. In the midst of the hatreds of war, he took pleasure, in private, in creating a "word painting of what the South would be when the war was over, slavery destroyed, and she had an opportunity to develop her resources."

Read more: Plans for reconstruction - Abraham Lincoln - war, second http://www.presidentprofiles.com/Washington-Johnson/Abraham-Lincoln-Plans-for-reconstruction.html#ixzz1Q3h7JJgq

So that you can know who is who…Follow these Links to explore some famous people and their

vision on the Reconstruction!

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Find out what was Lee’s Vision

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Find out what was Lincoln’s Vision

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Find out what the Radical Republican’s

VisionHERE

Find out what was Douglass’ Vision

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ReferencesIMAGES

Slide 1 http://mrkash.com/activities/civilwar.html Slide 2 http://www.csnworldglobes.com/Universal-Map-30125-ZO1266.html Slide 3 http://www.theforgottenman.org/tag/american-flag/ Slide 4 http://www.myblackhistory.net/reconstruction.htm Puzzle Piece http://www.123rf.com/photo_9160504_rendered-concept-last-puzzle-piece.html Lincoln http://www.independent.co.uk/news/presidents/abraham-lincoln-1391123.html Douglass http://declaringamerica.com/douglass-what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july-1852/ Lee http://richmondthenandnow.com/Newspaper-Articles/Robert-E-Lee-Book.htmlGrant http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/nation/jb_nation_grant_1.html

WRITTEN INFORMATIONLincoln http://www.presidentprofiles.com/Washington-Johnson/Abraham-Lincoln-Plans-for-reconstruction.html Lee http://www.biographyshelf.com/robert_e_lee_biography.html Douglass http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3441200034/douglass-frederick.htmlRadical Republicans http://countrystudies.us/united-states/history-68.htm

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