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Today's Agenda

12/12/2019

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AP Learning Objective: 
Explain the effects of government policy during Reconstruction on society from 1865 to 1877.

​Learning Target:
I can compare the differing approaches to Reconstruction, & I can assess its effects on the nation.

Critical Vocabulary: Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Ten Percent Plan, Wade-Davis Bill, Thirteenth Amendment, Freedmen’s Bureau, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, Presidential Reconstruction Plan, Black Codes, Sharecropping, Debt Peonage, Radical Republicans, Thaddeus Stephens, Charles Sumner, Joint Committee on Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction Plan, Civil Rights Bill of 1866, Fourteenth Amendment, “Swing Around the Circle” Tour, “Waving the Bloody Shirt,” Reconstruction Acts, Tenure of Office Act, Impeachment, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, 1868 Presidential Election, Ulysses Grant, Fifteenth Amendment, Ku Klux Klan, Enforcement Acts, Amnesty Act, Election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, Compromise of 1877, Redeemers, Lost Cause, Old South, Henry Grady, Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause, Jim Crow Laws, Lynching, Plessy v. Ferguson

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: What does this image tell us about the governments that emerged in the South as Reconstruction came to an end?
  2. Citizenship Question: Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states? 
    A. print money 
    B. create an army 
    C. issue passports 
    D. provide public education​
  3. Independent Learning: Study Guide: Units 1-3
  4. ​Reflection Question: What did the Supreme Court decide in the Plessy v. Ferguson case?
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Homework: The Trials of Reconstruction Reading
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Today's Agenda

12/11/2019

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AP Learning Objective: 
Explain the effects of government policy during Reconstruction on society from 1865 to 1877.

​Learning Target:
I can compare the differing approaches to Reconstruction, & I can assess its effects on the nation.

Critical Vocabulary: Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Ten Percent Plan, Wade-Davis Bill, Thirteenth Amendment, Freedmen’s Bureau, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, Presidential Reconstruction Plan, Black Codes, Sharecropping, Debt Peonage, Radical Republicans, Thaddeus Stephens, Charles Sumner, Joint Committee on Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction Plan, Civil Rights Bill of 1866, Fourteenth Amendment, “Swing Around the Circle” Tour, “Waving the Bloody Shirt,” Reconstruction Acts, Tenure of Office Act, Impeachment, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, 1868 Presidential Election, Ulysses Grant, Fifteenth Amendment, Ku Klux Klan, Enforcement Acts, Amnesty Act, Election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, Compromise of 1877, Redeemers, Lost Cause, Old South, Henry Grady, Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause, Jim Crow Laws, Lynching, Plessy v. Ferguson

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: What does this image tell us about the governments that emerged in the South as Reconstruction came to an end?
  2. Citizenship Question: Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states? 
    A. print money 
    B. create an army 
    C. issue passports 
    D. provide public education​
  3. Independent Learning: Long Essay Question
  4. ​Reflection Question: What did the Supreme Court decide in the Plessy v. Ferguson case?

Homework: The Trials of Reconstruction Reading
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Today's Agenda

12/10/2019

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AP Learning Objective: 
Explain the effects of government policy during Reconstruction on society from 1865 to 1877.

​Learning Target:
I can compare the differing approaches to Reconstruction, & I can assess its effects on the nation.

Critical Vocabulary: Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Ten Percent Plan, Wade-Davis Bill, Thirteenth Amendment, Freedmen’s Bureau, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, Presidential Reconstruction Plan, Black Codes, Sharecropping, Debt Peonage, Radical Republicans, Thaddeus Stephens, Charles Sumner, Joint Committee on Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction Plan, Civil Rights Bill of 1866, Fourteenth Amendment, “Swing Around the Circle” Tour, “Waving the Bloody Shirt,” Reconstruction Acts, Tenure of Office Act, Impeachment, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, 1868 Presidential Election, Ulysses Grant, Fifteenth Amendment, Ku Klux Klan, Enforcement Acts, Amnesty Act, Election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, Compromise of 1877, Redeemers, Lost Cause, Old South, Henry Grady, Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause, Jim Crow Laws, Lynching, Plessy v. Ferguson

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: What does this image tell us about the governments that emerged in the South as Reconstruction came to an end?
  2. Citizenship Question: Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states? 
    A. print money 
    B. create an army 
    C. issue passports 
    D. provide public education​
  3. Independent Learning: Long Essay Question
  4. ​Reflection Question: What did the Supreme Court decide in the Plessy v. Ferguson case?

Homework: The Trials of Reconstruction Reading
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Today's Agenda

12/9/2019

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AP Learning Objective: 
Explain the effects of government policy during Reconstruction on society from 1865 to 1877.

​Learning Target:

I can compare the differing approaches to Reconstruction, & I can assess its effects on the nation.

Critical Vocabulary: Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Ten Percent Plan, Wade-Davis Bill, Thirteenth Amendment, Freedmen’s Bureau, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, Presidential Reconstruction Plan, Black Codes, Sharecropping, Debt Peonage, Radical Republicans, Thaddeus Stephens, Charles Sumner, Joint Committee on Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction Plan, Civil Rights Bill of 1866, Fourteenth Amendment, “Swing Around the Circle” Tour, “Waving the Bloody Shirt,” Reconstruction Acts, Tenure of Office Act, Impeachment, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, 1868 Presidential Election, Ulysses Grant, Fifteenth Amendment, Ku Klux Klan, Enforcement Acts, Amnesty Act, Election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, Compromise of 1877, Redeemers, Lost Cause, Old South, Henry Grady, Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause, Jim Crow Laws, Lynching, Plessy v. Ferguson

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: What does this image tell us about the governments that emerged in the South as Reconstruction came to an end?
  2. Citizenship Question: Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states? 
    A. print money 
    B. create an army 
    C. issue passports 
    D. provide public education​
  3. Guided Instruction: The Old South
  4. ​Reflection Question: What did the Supreme Court decide in the Plessy v. Ferguson case?

Homework: The Trials of Reconstruction Reading
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Talent Show!

12/6/2019

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Today's Agenda

12/5/2019

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AP Learning Objective: 
Explain the effects of government policy during Reconstruction on society from 1865 to 1877.

​Learning Target:

I can compare the differing approaches to Reconstruction, & I can assess its effects on the nation.

Critical Vocabulary: Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Ten Percent Plan, Wade-Davis Bill, Thirteenth Amendment, Freedmen’s Bureau, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, Presidential Reconstruction Plan, Black Codes, Sharecropping, Debt Peonage, Radical Republicans, Thaddeus Stephens, Charles Sumner, Joint Committee on Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction Plan, Civil Rights Bill of 1866, Fourteenth Amendment, “Swing Around the Circle” Tour, “Waving the Bloody Shirt,” Reconstruction Acts, Tenure of Office Act, Impeachment, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, 1868 Presidential Election, Ulysses Grant, Fifteenth Amendment, Ku Klux Klan, Enforcement Acts, Amnesty Act, Election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, Compromise of 1877, Redeemers, Lost Cause, Old South, Henry Grady, Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause, Jim Crow Laws, Lynching, Plessy v. Ferguson

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create a Trading Card for Thaddeus Stevens.
  2. Citizenship Question: What is one right that ONLY applies to United States citizens? 
    A. speak freely 
    B. own a weapon 
    C. practice a religion 
    D. run for federal office​
  3. Guided Instruction: Congressional Reconstruction
  4. ​Reflection Question: How does your goal for Reconstruction compare to those of the Radical Republicans?

Homework: The Trials of Reconstruction Reading
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Today's Agenda

12/4/2019

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AP Learning Objective: 
Explain the effects of government policy during Reconstruction on society from 1865 to 1877.

​Learning Target:

I can compare the differing approaches to Reconstruction, & I can assess its effects on the nation.

Critical Vocabulary: Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Ten Percent Plan, Wade-Davis Bill, Thirteenth Amendment, Freedmen’s Bureau, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, Presidential Reconstruction Plan, Black Codes, Sharecropping, Debt Peonage, Radical Republicans, Thaddeus Stephens, Charles Sumner, Joint Committee on Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction Plan, Civil Rights Bill of 1866, Fourteenth Amendment, “Swing Around the Circle” Tour, “Waving the Bloody Shirt,” Reconstruction Acts, Tenure of Office Act, Impeachment, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, 1868 Presidential Election, Ulysses Grant, Fifteenth Amendment, Ku Klux Klan, Enforcement Acts, Amnesty Act, Election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, Compromise of 1877, Redeemers, Lost Cause, Old South, Henry Grady, Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause, Jim Crow Laws, Lynching, Plessy v. Ferguson

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create a Trading Card for Andrew Johnson.
  2. Citizenship Question: Who is the Commander in Chief of the military? 
    A. the President 
    B. the Secretary of Defense 
    C. the U.S. Attorney General 
    D. the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  3. Guided Instruction: Presidential Reconstruction
  4. ​Reflection Question: How does your goal for Reconstruction compare to those of Andrew Johnson?

Homework: The Trials of Reconstruction Reading
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Today's Agenda

12/3/2019

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AP Learning Objective: 
Explain the effects of government policy during Reconstruction on society from 1865 to 1877.
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Learning Target:

I can compare the differing approaches to Reconstruction, & I can assess its effects on the nation.

Critical Vocabulary: Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Ten Percent Plan, Wade-Davis Bill, Thirteenth Amendment, Freedmen’s Bureau, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, Presidential Reconstruction Plan, Black Codes, Sharecropping, Debt Peonage, Radical Republicans, Thaddeus Stephens, Charles Sumner, Joint Committee on Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction Plan, Civil Rights Bill of 1866, Fourteenth Amendment, “Swing Around the Circle” Tour, “Waving the Bloody Shirt,” Reconstruction Acts, Tenure of Office Act, Impeachment, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, 1868 Presidential Election, Ulysses Grant, Fifteenth Amendment, Ku Klux Klan, Enforcement Acts, Amnesty Act, Election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, Compromise of 1877, Redeemers, Lost Cause, Old South, Henry Grady, Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause, Jim Crow Laws, Lynching, Plessy v. Ferguson

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: What do you think should be the goal(s) of Reconstruction?
  2. Citizenship Question: Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of the federal government? 
    A. to make treaties 
    B. to issue driver's licenses 
    C. to provide public education 
    D. to establish police departments
  3. Individual Learning: The Trials of Reconstruction
  4. Guided Instruction: Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan
  5. ​Reflection Question: Most freedmen never see the "forty acres and a mule" promised under Sherman's Special Field Order #15. Do you think this promise should have been honored? Explain.

Homework: The Trials of Reconstruction Reading
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Today's Agenda

12/2/2019

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AP Learning Objective: 
Explain the effects of government policy during Reconstruction on society from 1865 to 1877.
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Learning Target:

I can compare the differing approaches to Reconstruction, & I can assess its effects on the nation.

Critical Vocabulary: Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Ten Percent Plan, Wade-Davis Bill, Thirteenth Amendment, Freedmen’s Bureau, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, Presidential Reconstruction Plan, Black Codes, Sharecropping, Debt Peonage, Radical Republicans, Thaddeus Stephens, Charles Sumner, Joint Committee on Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction Plan, Civil Rights Bill of 1866, Fourteenth Amendment, “Swing Around the Circle” Tour, “Waving the Bloody Shirt,” Reconstruction Acts, Tenure of Office Act, Impeachment, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, 1868 Presidential Election, Ulysses Grant, Fifteenth Amendment, Ku Klux Klan, Enforcement Acts, Amnesty Act, Election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, Compromise of 1877, Redeemers, Lost Cause, Old South, Henry Grady, Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause, Jim Crow Laws, Lynching, Plessy v. Ferguson

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Complete the Anticipation Guide.
  2. Citizenship Question: If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President? 
    A. the Secretary of State 
    B. the U.S. Attorney General 
    C. the President Pro Tempore 
    D. the Speaker of the House of Representatives
  3. Collaborative Learning: Creating a Plan for Reconstruction
  4. ​Reflection Question: How do you define the goal(s) of Reconstruction?
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Homework: The Trials of Reconstruction Reading
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    • Trading Cards
    • US History Flashcards
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  • Et Cetera
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    • Crash Course Videos
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