TUESDAY--FEB. 23

US History
EQ:
To what extent was Reconstruction successful in helping ex-slaves achieve social, political, and economic rights post-Civil War?

CW:
Presidential Reconstruction vs. Radical Reconstruction: Why was Congressional Reconstruction "Radical"?
video clip from Reconstruction DVD
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Congressional Reconstruction (1866-73)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Reconstruction Act of 1867
1867--President Johnson impeached
1868:
14th Amendment ratified--1868
U.S. Grant wins the presidency
sharecropping contract--"slavery without the whip" 
Klan Enforcement Acts
1870--15th Amendment ratified
small group activity: analysis of the Reconstruction Amendments
video clip from Many Rivers on the impact on the 15th Amendment

HW:
Read pp. 397-401
Panic of 1873--impact on Reconstruction?
Supreme Court rules against Reconstruction
Northern support
Election of 1876
home rule
Compromise of 1877
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IB HOTA
EQ:
How did Andrew Jackson transform the presidency (1828-36)?

CW:
John Marshall and the Federalist Supreme Court
Ke$ha and her contract dispute with Sony
discussion: Which U.S. presidents could be described as iconic? Why?
election results--1824
anaylsis: changes in the elective franchise and its impact on the presidential election of 1828
1828 election results--what big change occurred in the popular vote?
Andrew Jackson--"Washington outsider..."
notes: Andrew Jackson--Man of the People (1828--32)
video clip: wild inauguration celebration at the White House
readings/discussion from Digital History on Nullification and Bank Warvideo clip: Jackson vs. South Carolina over nullification (1:10:27-1:17:31)


HW:
Blankets for the Dead--READ AND ANSWER QUESTIONS