Ihomeschool: Day 170 Webquest: Restoration (only 5 more days of 6th grade!)

June 1, 2012 Day 170
Math: 2 pages
Latin: review flashcards

Webquest: Restoration: The Second Civil War

1. FTL: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/index.html

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.