THURSDAY

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

CW:
primary source analysis: Radical Reconstruction vs. Presidential Reconstruction
Congressional/Radical Reconstruction (1866-73)
Freedmen's Bureau
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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