Warm up Write the first ten Presidents in order.

1. George Washington (1789-1797) 2. John Adams (1797-1801)

3. Thomas Jefferson (1801-1805) 4. James Madison (1809-1817) 5. James Monroe (1817-1825)

6. John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) 7. Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)

8. Martin Van Buren (1837-1841) 9. William Henry Harrison (1841)

10. John Tyler (1841-1845)

Reconstruction

1867-1877

In your own words describe what you think Reconstruction was.

Characteristics of the Reconstruction Era

• End of the Civil War• 13th, 14th and 15th amendment• Allowing the South in the Union• Radical Reconstruction• Andrew Johnson• Sharecropping• Carpetbaggers and Scalawags

Difficult post Civil War Questions:

1. Should the slaveholders be punished or forgiven?

2. What rights should be granted to free African-Americans

3. How could the war torn nation be brought back together?

Black Codes

• http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/black-codes/

• Write YOUR definition of the Black Codes.

Warm-Up :Define the following.

• Amnesty Act• Jim Crow Laws• Poll Tax• Scalawags• Carpetbaggers

Freedman’s Bureau

• http://youtu.be/I_iKCXE8MaY

• Write your definition of the Freedmen’s Bureau.

Ku Klux Klan

• http://www.history.com/videos/the-kkk

• Write your definition of the Ku Klux Klan.

Copy these notes in your journal.

Morrill Act• 1862 • was also known as the Land

Grant College Act.• major boost to higher

education in America. • The grant was originally set

up to establish colleges.

Hiram Revels• 1st African American Senator

Civil War Amendments

• http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/the-reconstruction-amendments-the-13th-14th-and-15th-amendments.html

http://youtu.be/PmjsOiI7XesHistory Channel: Reconstruction

List 25 facts that we have learned from the Civil War and Reconstruction.

You have been a slave all your life and have just received your freedom. Record five days of journal entries describing your new life in the South.Year: 1866Location: South Carolina Family: Married with Two Children

Make sure to include:Black codes, sharecropping, confederacy, cash crop, poll

tax, literacy test, segregation, lynching, Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Compromise of 1850, Nullification Crisis, the 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Freedman's Bureau, KKK, Emancipation Proclamation.