Wrapping up Reconstruction

1. Wrapping up Reconstruction Have out your plain white paper and card stock from last class Pick up the two handouts in the front of the room Yes, you will need a textbook.

2. Important information Please take your agendas out to record this. You will have a quiz on Reconstruction on: b/d classes Tues Oct 1st a/c classes Wednesday Oct 2 You will need to know everything that we will be recording in our Foldable today. You should know how to use a timeline You should know what were Black Codes You should know what sharecropping is You should know why Plessy V Ferguson was an important court case. Review all powerpoints found on my website, including this one.

3. What would it be like to be a sharecropper?

4. Memories of a sharecropper • Interview subjects recall their lives in the South as members of sharecropping families. Sharecropping was a system by which landowners rented land to farmers in exchange for a percentage of their crop. • The life of an African American sharecropper in the South was one of constant hard labor, hunger, and debt. • http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/46FE3311-C3ED-48F9-BD3D-9C0B4ED9224E

5. The Reconstruction Amendments 13th,14th, 15th • 1864 – before southern stated could be re-admitted to the Union, they had to accept (ratify) these amendments. • 13th – Abolishes Slavery • 14th –Grants citizenship to all former slaves, referred to as “ freedmen” • 15th – grants voting rights, regardless of race ( to males only)

6. Restrictions to the 15th amendment in the South • Poll taxes- price paid before you voted • Literacy tests- test you took before you voted • Grandfather clause – If you grandfather voted prior to 1864, you could vote in an election

7. Black Codes and Jim Crow laws • Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public places and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms and restaurants for whites and blacks. • Restrict the Freedom of Movement • Relegate Blacks to Agricultural Labor and Domestic Work

8. Some short clips to anchor your learning • Segregation • http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/11D76D42-B950-4246-907A-2B541E38766D • PlessyVs Ferguson • http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/82B11485-BBA5-439A-ABF4-A0E70928E14C

9. Plessy v Ferguson (1896) • "The object of the [Fourteenth] Amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either." • —Justice Henry Billings Brown, speaking for the majority

10. Court’s decisionhttp://www.landmarkcases.org/plessy/home.html • Separate is equal, meaning the separation of the races in public places is equal if the separate facilities are the same. • The reality was – they never were !

11. Foldables • You will create a foldable that will summarize your learning of sharecropping and introduce you to our next topic in Reconstruction. • The white paper you will staple into the colored folded paper like a little book • Watch Mrs. Wenk as she demonstrates this.

12. Foldable- using your textbook in your own words say what you know about each : • Purple – Sharecropping ( pg 531 + 538) • Blue – Plessy v Ferguson ( pg 540) • Green – 13,14, 15th amendments (pg 524+525) Provide as much detail and facts as you say what you know !

13. Classwork for a grade/ homework if you do not finish….Place in blue bin when done, or record in your agendas you need tofinish for homework • Reconstruction and the New South • Fill in the graphic organizer with the word bank provided. • Catagories are Protected rights by and Denied rights To African Americans