Tuesday, November 12 - Period 5 Lesson 10

Open Ended

Tuesday, November 28th - Bellringer Question:

What was the purpose of Reconstruction?

Reconstruction (5)

+ Black Reconstruction

+ Idea arguing that many African

Americans played an important
role

+ Hiram Revels (R-MS)

+ 1st African American to serve in

Congress (70-71)

+ Blanche K. Bruce (R-MS)

+ First non-white to serve a full term

Reconstruction (5)

+ Robert Smalls

+ Former slave
+ Played a role in persuading

Lincoln to allow African Americans as soldiers

+ Served in HoR (R-SC)

+ Carpetbagger

+ Term used by southerners
+ For northerners who came to the

south

+ Associated with opportunism and

exploitation

+ Scalawag

+ Term used by southerners
+ For southerners who cooperated

with the Republican Party during
Reconstruction

Reconstruction (5)

+Ku Klux Klan

(1865-1870s)

+ Secret Organization
+ Sought to overthrow

Republican state
governments in the South

+ Violence against African
American

leaders

+ Costumes designed to be

terrifying and to hide
identities

Reconstruction (6)

+Redeemers

+ Southern Democrats

+ Brought the Democratic Party

back to power

+ Suppressed Black

Reconstruction

+ Remove Republicans from

power in southern states

Reconstruction (6)

+ Compromise of 1877

+ Presidential election of 1876

+ Rutherford B Hayes (R-OH) v.

Samuel Tilden (D-NY)

+ 184-165
+ 20 unresolved electoral votes
+ 185 votes needed to win

+ All 20 went to Hayes
+ Agreed to withdraw troops from

the South

+ Ceded power to the Redeemers

+ Ended reconstruction

+ Only time a candidate received

over 50% of the popular vote and
lost

College Board Website.

Look for "Failure of Reconstruction Quiz" and answer the 3 questions.

3 Practice AP Questions.

​Failure of Recon. "Quiz"

We will watch together as a class.

​5.11 Daily Video 1

AP/College Board Practice

Analyze the political cartoon by Thomas Nast and summarize its meaning.

​Workbook pg. 72

Identify the successes and the failures of Reconstruction based on the secondary source reading.

​Workbook pg. 71

Reconstruction Activities