June 1, 2012 Day 170
Math: 2 pages
Latin: review flashcards
Webquest: Restoration: The Second Civil War
A.
Click on link on left: A New Birth of Freedom:
Reconstruction During the Civil War
B.
Read and List 3 Facts/ Details you learned:
1. 650,000 men died during the Civil War including 260,000 confederates
more than one fifth of the white men population in the South
2. There were more than 200,000 black soldiers that served in the Civil
War
3.
The Emancipation Proclamation also gave authorization for slaves to enlist in
the army
C.
Click “Next” at bottom of page & Read and List 3 Facts/ Details you
learned:
4.
The disintegration of slavery was one of the many considerations that led
President Abraham Lincoln to the Emancipation Proclamation
5. The Emancipation, which only applied to areas outside of Union
control, did not immediately abolish slavery but it but it made emancipation an
irrevocable war aim.
6.
The Emancipation proclamation ensured that Union victory would create a social
revolution in the south, reconstruction
D. Click on link on left: The
Meaning of Slavery: Black and White Responses to the End of Slavery
E. Read & Click “Next,” then
write 3 good sentences about what you learned:
1. After the Civil War, the meaning
of freedom became a conflict in the South during Reconstruction, former slaves
did not know what to do with themselves because it was the first time they had
ever been free.
2. Most Southern families reacted
to the defeat and freedom of their slaves with dismay, they also mourned over
the loss of loved ones and made memorial grounds and cemeteries all over the
region.
3. Reuniting separated slaves was
hard but was essential to the black meaning of freedom .
F. Click on link on left: From
Slave Labor to Free Labor. Read & Click “Next,” then write 3 good sentences
about what you learned:
4. Former slaves believed that
their many years of hard labor would give them their own land, “forty acres and
a mule” was what they were promised but never truly received it.
5. During the Civil War many white
farmers were thrown into poverty because of destruction, there was a major
change in their lives when after the Civil War they focused on growing food and
growing a family.
6. As under slavery, many freed
blacks worked for land owning whites but were aloud control over their personal
lives and they could come and go as they pleased.
G. Click on link on left: Rights
& Power: The Politics of Reconstruction. Read & Click “Next.”
H. What were the 3 main questions
of the national debate over Reconstruction & what were the answers?
1. On what terms should the
confederate army be reunited? They had to admit that they lost the Civil war
and that slavery and secession are dead
2. Who should establish these
terms, Congress or the President? The President
3. What should be the place of the
former slaves and the political life of the South? The Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendment gave the federal rights for black men to vote under restrictions
I. Click on link on left: The
Ending of Reconstruction. Read & Click “Next,” then write a good 6 sentence
paragraph summarizing the end of Reconstruction.
In the 1870s, violent oppositions
are in the south. As soon as blacks got the right to vote the Ku Klux Klan
established which created violent terrors in the South and killed any
republican leader. Soon the federal marshals and U.S troops brought the
organization to an end. Many republicans thought that the south should solve
their own problems without any interference from Washington, but then
republican Rutherford B. Hayes became president and they quieted down.
J. What does the Epilogue say about
“The Unfinished Revolution”? A: it means that really reconstruction didn’t end
until the mid twentieth century.
