Monday, January 5, 2009

Homework Due Thursday 1/8

Read chapter 22 pages 477-top 485
(Stop at Congressional Reconstruction)



By the end of your reading, you should be able to...

* define the major problems facing the South and the nation after the Civil War
* describe the responses of both whites and blacks to the end of slavery
* explain Lincoln's and Johnson's plans for Reconstruction & analyze the effectiveness of presidential reconstruction

You may want to create a T-chart to define the problems and make a venn diagram to describe the responses.

Vocabulary that is expected to be USED in class on Thursday in reference to Reconstruction:

pardon
treason
civil disablities
legalistically
emancipation
mutual aid societies
10 percent
Wade Davis Bill
Black Codes

Take a look at the ad below (click on the picture to see the full image). What is the viewpoint expressed? What were the actual goals of the Freedman's Bureau?





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