WEDNESDAY--FEBRUARY 18

Honors US History
EQ:
What were the social, economic, and political impacts of American slavery?

CW:
finish 12 Years a Slave


HW:
Abolitionist reading
SEE TUESDAY'S SCHEDULE FOR THE READING!
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US History
EQ:
To what extent was Reconstruction a success? Failure?

CW:
12:1 RG
finish discussion of Presidential Reconstruction (1865-66)
video clips:
Presidential Reconstruction
black codes
Congressional Reconstruction: Reconstruction Act of 1867
impeachment of Johnson
election of 1868
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12:2 RG
Reconstructing Southern Society:
scalawags, carpetbaggers; political power of ex-slaves
sharecropping
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12:3 overhead notes-Reconstruction's end
 rise and fall of the KKK--video clip
Civil War Amendments
1871-72 Klan Enforcement Acts
Financial Panic of 1873
Lost Cause

HW:
REVIEW NOTES/ESSAY PREP FOR UNIT 1 EXAM
EXAM IS THIS FRIDAY!