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Welcome to HUSH! and

Unit 1: Reconstruction
1865-1876
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”- A. Lincoln

YAWP Chapter 15 OpenStax Chapter 16

Essential Questions
● What did “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” look like post Civil War?
● What makes us American?
● How did that motto shape our nation geographically?

Week 1: 8/23-8/27
Date Topic Due

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday Welcome to HUSH By 11:59pm- Intro Survey

Survey
Pledge of allegiance
Modified schedule*- fire drill

Friday Class expectations/Go bucket Start of class: Pledge

Seminar annotations
America assignment
Modified schedule*- Class
meetings

Week 2: 8/30-9/3
Date Topic Due

Monday Civil War Recap Check In

Lincoln letter Start of class: Pledge Seminar
Chalk talk packet

Tuesday Reconstruction goals and Start of class: reading

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 politics OS:
16.1- sections:
- The President's Plan
- Andrew Johnson and the
Battle over
Reconstruction

Wednesday Reconstruction amendments

Thursday Jim Crow and SCOTUS

Friday Wrap up America on turnitin by

11:59pm*

Week 3: 9/6-9/10
Date Topic Due

Monday No School- Labor Day

Tuesday Freedmen’s Bureau and Week 3 check in

Sharecropping Start of class:
OS:
- 16.2- Freedmen’s
Bureau
- 16.3- Black Political
Achievements

Wednesday End of Reconstruction/KKK

Wrap up
Reconstruction Crash Course

Thursday Seminar Start of class:

Seminar Prep

Friday Quick Quiz Seminar reflection

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 Key Terms and Concepts
Be familiar with the following key terms/concepts, their purpose, and impact

Reconstruction
● Problems facing the nation after the Civil War
● Goals of Reconstruction
● Exodusters/Scalawags/carpetbaggers
● Freedmen’s Bureau
● Historically Black Colleges and University (HBCU)
● Andrew Johnson as the “wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time”
● 2 paths to restore the union (Congress vs Lincoln/ Radical Republicans vs Johnson)
The Presidents Plan
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○ 10% plan
○ What each wanted
● Military occupation of the South
● Grant and Hayes/end of Reconstruction
● Cronyism/nepotism
● Political bosses/Tammany Hall
● 13th, 14th, 15th amendments
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● Hiram Revels
● Black Codes/Jim Crow laws- purpose and examples
● Plessy v Ferguson
● De jure/de facto segregation
● Sharecropping
● KKK

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Context: Horace Greeley published an angry open “letter” to President Lincoln in the pages of his newspaper, the
New York Tribune, on August 20, 1862. Greeley was upset that Lincoln had not yet begun enforcing the
“emancipating provisions” of the new Second Confiscation Act (July 17, 1862). Lincoln responded in the pages of a
rival newspaper with his own “letter” to Greeley that sternly laid out the president’s policy regarding slavery.

Executive Mansion,

Washington, August 22, 1862.

Hon. Horace Greeley:

Dear Sir.

I have just read yours of the 19th. addressed to myself through the New-York Tribune. If there be in it
any statements, or assumptions of fact, which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now and here,
controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and
here, argue against them. If there be perceptable in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in
deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right.

As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national
authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would
not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be
those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree
with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to
destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by
freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would
also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the
Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do
less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall
believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall
adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my
oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.

Yours,

A. Lincoln.
Source: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler et al.
“Letter to Horace Greeley (August 22, 1862). “Lincolns Writings, Dickinson University,
http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/lincoln/letter-to-horace-greeley-august-22-1862/

Stephens' Secession Address

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 Reconstruction Amendments

13th Amendment Primary Document

See the document
Read the document

14th Amendment Primary Document

Read the document

15th Amendment Primary Document

See it here
Read it here

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 Examples of Jim Crow Laws
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From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through “Jim
Crow” laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows- created for the entertainment of
whites). These laws were also referred to as “Black Codes”. From Delaware to California, and from
North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) could impose legal punishments on people for
consorting with members of another race. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage
and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep their black and white clientele
separated.
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Here is a sampling of laws from various states:

1. Nurses: No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or
rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed. Alabama
2. Buses: All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company
shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and
colored races. Alabama
3. Railroads: The conductor of each passenger train is authorized and required to assign each
passenger to the car or the division of the car, when it is divided by a partition, designated
for the race to which such passenger belongs. Alabama
4. Pool and Billiard Rooms: It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play
together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards. Alabama
5. Toilet Facilities, Male: Every employer of white or negro males shall provide for such
white or negro males reasonably accessible and separate toilet facilities. Alabama
6. Cohabitation: Any negro man and white woman, or any white man and negro woman, who
are not married to each other, who shall habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the
same room shall each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twelve (12) months, or
by fine not exceeding five hundred ($500.00) dollars. Florida

1 “NCpedia: NCpedia.” ANCHOR North Carolina History Online Resource.

https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/sampling-jim-crow-laws.

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7. Juvenile Delinquents: There shall be separate buildings, not nearer than one fourth mile to
each other, one for white boys and one for negro boys. White boys and negro boys shall not,
in any manner, be associated together or worked together. Florida
8. Mental Hospitals: The Board of Control shall see that proper and distinct apartments are
arranged for said patients, so that in no case shall Negroes and white persons be together.
Georgia
9. Barbers: No colored barber shall serve as a barber [to] white women or girls. Georgia
10. Burial: The officer in charge shall not bury, or allow to be buried, any colored persons upon
ground set apart or used for the burial of white persons. Georgia
11. Amateur Baseball: It shall be unlawful for any amateur white baseball team to play
baseball on any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of a playground devoted
to the Negro race, and it shall be unlawful for any amateur colored baseball team to play
baseball in any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of any playground devoted
to the white race. Georgia
12. Circus Tickets: All circuses, shows, and tent exhibitions, to which the attendance of...more
than one race is invited or expected to attend shall provide for the convenience of its
patrons not less than two ticket offices with individual ticket sellers, and not less than two
entrances to the said performance, with individual ticket takers and receivers, and in the
case of outside or tent performances, the said ticket offices shall not be less than twenty-five
(25) feet apart. Louisiana
13. Intermarriage: All marriages between a white person and a negro, or between a white
person and a person of negro descent, to the third generation, inclusive, or between a white
person and a member of the Malay race; or between the negro and a member of the Malay
race; or between a person of Negro descent, to the third generation, inclusive, and a
member of the Malay race, are forever prohibited, and shall be void. Maryland
14. Education: Separate schools shall be maintained for the children of the white and colored
races.Mississippi
15. Textbooks: Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but
shall continue to be used by the race first using them. North Carolina
16. Militia: The white and colored militia shall be separately enrolled, and shall never be
compelled to serve in the same organization.No organization of colored troops shall be
permitted where white troops are available, and while white permitted to be organized,
colored troops shall be under the command of white officers. North Carolina
17. Lunch Counters: No persons, firms, or corporations, who or which furnish meals to
passengers at station restaurants or station eating houses, in times limited by common
carriers of said passengers, shall furnish said meals to white and colored passengers in the
same room, or at the same table, or at the same counter. South Carolina
18. Education: Black children are prohibited from attending Pittsburgh Schools (1869).
Pennsylvania

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