During Reconstruction President Grant was having trouble getting rid of a Civil War tax to fund Northern Troops to go into the South to keep the peace. When the revenue drops the country deals with an economic depression. So many immigrants from Asia will be blamed in that the have taken Gold Rush jobs, Rail Road jobs, and other economic opportunities. Again a scapegoat is created by the American public. We will excluded immigrants from trying to come to the United States. Time an time again America finds someone to blame for the economic woes occur. The hope is that we can use Government to make our political ideas come to fruition. We use government to solve many problems. Please read each button link and see what notes or ideas you can add to your notebook.
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Below there is an interactive timeline. You should add ideas from the timeline you received on Tuesday 4/4. Also the practices since the 13th Amendment the clause that deals with a "crime" has made a loophole for Jim Crow and Black codes that you will have to try and understand in context of Reconstruction. Some parents let students watch the movie 13th and it helped students place the history of reconstruction to modern day issues. We will be working on Reconstruction for at least two more weeks. The interactive personal notebook will be due when we get back from spring break. You may have to catch up if you are wasting class time. All the hard copies will be posted around the room and you can download these to your device. We will need to pair share and work with these primary sources.
This is someone you should recognize. You might recognize this dialogue below. Remember we did not get to have Lincoln to lead us out of the Civil War aftermath and Reconstruction. Later you can look at our class timeline and see a letter my Great-Great Grandfather wrote to President Grant for his back pay as a Civil War veteran. Lincoln entrusted Grant to finish the war and get Lee to surrender.
As President Grant, he will try to see if Reconstruction can be accomplished with Congress fighting amongst themselves, and the Southern States debated the rebuilding of society out of the Civil War. Grant will have a really hard time governing the South. Please read the dialogue and take notes. Also watch the 4 minute video and take notes. LINCOLN Once he surrenders, send his boys back to their homes, their farms, their shops. GRANT Yes sir, as we discussed. LINCOLN Liberality all around. No punishment. I don't want that. And the leaders - Jeff and the rest of `em - if they escape, leave the country while my back's turned, that wouldn't upset me none. 120. When peace comes it mustn't just be hangings. GRANT By outward appearance, you're ten years older than you were a year ago. LINCOLN Some weariness has bit at my bones. (BEAT) I never seen the like of it before. What I seen today. Never seen the like of it before. GRANT You always knew that, what this was going to be. Intimate, and ugly. You must've needed to see it close when you decided to come down here. LINCOLN We've made it possible for one another to do terrible things. GRANT And we've won the war. Now you have to lead us out of it. As Reconstruction began there will be a debate like in the movie between Lincoln and Thad Stevens. How far will we bring back treasonous rebels or secesh? How will freed slaves participate in society? What will slave holders get back? What will the freedmen get to become franchised in to American society? We will Read Like Historians and try to find what happened and we will continue to look at what did and has happened to connect to today. This will be today's Wayback Wednesday. Let's get to work and follow the social contract.
Film Description [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/filmmore/fd.html]
On a misty April evening in 1865, a jubilant crowd packed the White House lawn to hear President Abraham Lincoln's first speech since the end of the Civil War. They expected a stirring celebration of the Union victory -- but instead got harsh reality. Even with the South defeated, Lincoln warned, the future would be "fraught with great difficulty." He called the task ahead reconstruction -- a word that returned to American headlines nearly a century and a half later, in the aftermath of the war in Iraq. Even as Lincoln spoke, opposing forces were gathering. Some Americans saw Reconstruction as a chance to build a new nation out of the ashes of war and slavery. Others vowed to wage a new war to protect their way of life, and a racial order they believed ordained by God. Lincoln saw the problem with agonizing clarity. Bitter enemies, North and South, had to be reconciled. And four million former slaves had to be brought into the life of a nation that had ignored them for centuries. In some ways, it was harder than winning the war. Three days after delivering his warning, Lincoln was shot dead. Reconstruction would have to go forward without him. Spanning the momentous years from 1863 to 1877, Reconstruction tracks the extraordinary stories of ordinary Americans -- Southern and Northern, white and black -- as they struggle to shape new lives for themselves in a world turned upside down. Reconstruction's remarkable cast of characters includes Tunis Campbell, a daring former minister who staked out an independent colony for blacks in Georgia's Sea Islands -- and declared it off-limits to whites. Frances Butler, the daughter of a Georgia rice baron, struggled to rebuild her family's plantations -- and to negotiate labor contracts with the very men and women her family used to own. Marshall Twitchell, a battle-scarred Civil War veteran from Vermont, rose to power in the wild northwest corner of Louisiana with deadly consequences. John Roy Lynch, a former slave from Mississippi, was elected to Congress, where he challenged whites' deepest beliefs about race and class. The narratives of these and other unknown players are interwoven with the stories of presidents and generals -- Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman -- and others whose lives were caught up in the epochal struggles of the era. "An old social order had been destroyed," says Eric Foner, historian at Columbia University and author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution. "Everything was up for grabs." After four bloody years of civil war, North and South would continue to fight over the meaning of freedom, the meaning of citizenship, and the survival of the nation itself. Reconstructionbrings to life this turbulent and complex period through original footage shot on location, primarily in the South (Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina), and with the assistance of regional groups and associations -- the First Louisiana Cavalry Regiment, Company E; the Liberty Greys, Civil War re-enactors based in New England; South Carolina's Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition; and the Thirty-Second Georgia Artillery, among others. Reconstruction shows how, in just a few years, a series of stunning events -- the Emancipation Proclamation, the Fourteenth Amendment granting ex-slaves citizenship in 1868, the enfranchisement of blacks the following year -- reversed centuries-old patterns of race relations in America. People who for generations had been the property of others were now free to run their own lives. The whole Southern world was turned upside down. And yet, despite these challenges and terrible racial violence in this period, so much was accomplished. Reconstruction brought public schools to the South for the first time. Black Southerners were elected to local and national offices. And the nation committed itself to equality under the law for all Americans, regardless of race, by passing the Fourteenth Amendment. Reconstruction laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, and the foundation for the American society we live in today. The Reconstruction [Chapter 16] is one of the most important topics that we study in this course. We are coming down to the last few weeks of the school year and this Friday we will begin our last few interactive notebooks. The Block schedule for SBAC testing will be long and filled with many subjects so please get your 8 hours of sleep. This is no different than what I have said since the first day of class. Sleep means brain repair and that means a fully functional brain. A sleep deprived brain will not process the information as well as rested brain on a sleep schedule getting 8-10hours, seven days a week is best. I will add topics for the pages to the last notebooks from here. We still might have 2-3 more interactive personal notebooks. I will add them in the comments section of this page. Any pages outside the chapter 16 I add to the comment section add to your notebook. Please also take notes on the reconstruction video below before you come to class on Wednesday for the Wayback [students missing Wednesday start early you still need to add the Wayback]. Make comments to get help from classmates. The wayback will be two cartoons in the power point that answer the central historical question. Try to remember and think about what we talked about all year even some modern connections. Please use these buttons when you want to understand more or if I assign as homework. http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/pbs-film/ Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/filmmore/pt.html Please make sure you stay ahead. Grading Period ends March 30th. With all the activities many of you have missed the late due date last Friday for the 13/14 IPNB. The Chapter 15 will be due Thursday, March 30th. The Wayback for next week has been posted all week. There will be four Wayback Wednesdays for ch. 15. Check your agendas to see where you are. We still have many ideas about the American Civil War to discuss. Many who want to walk are trying to get any F changed. Please try to get your work done. Best of luck.
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Civil War historian, SHELBY FOOTE said: "Any understanding of this nation has to be based and I mean really based on the understanding of Civil War. I believe that firmly, it defined us. The revolution did what it did. Our involvement in European wars began with the first World War did what it did, but the Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became — good and bad things. And it is very necessary if you’re going to understand the American character in the 20th Century, to learn about this enormous catastrophe in the mid-19th Century. It was the crossroads of our being and it was a hell of a crossroads." We are still working on making this Constitution work after the abolition of slavery and ensure democracy is for all. We get the government we earn and deserve when we work together, maybe. Try to see in the movie what Lincoln does in all his realm: he as President, father, husband, Commander in Chief with his son, Radical Republicans, Conservative Republicans, Democrats, Confederacy Delegation that is coming to have peace talks, his Cabinet disagreeing on Emancipation Proclamation, design the Reconstruction, and the 13th Amendment facilitator. He is dealing with many political characters. He is truly juggling the entire country and its fate. You may wonder if this story is complete and accurate but it does let you have some ideas why he is thought to be the best President, and Obama seemingly close. There are any interesting connections to the current politics we are seeing today. If you can see this netflix movie with parental approval, it will help you understand why Lincoln's struggle from 1865 is still present. In a way it is our struggle to follow the aspirations of the Declaration of Independence that all are created equal. Today the Gettysburg Address talked to those ideals that we all are to follow. Again please send blog questions. Best wishes. This film does a great job of showing all the things that Abraham Lincoln was juggling to keep the union and constitution held together. Historian Eric Foner, does critique the film in that it makes it looks as though Lincoln was the sole facilitator of the Congressional Process of changing the Constitution. Lincoln balanced the radical republicans and the conservative republicans. He worked the democrats to decide to abstain or vote yes, or did he? The Confederacy had a delegation to offer something to end the civil war. Lincoln lost his son during the first year of the war and early in his presidency. His wife, Mary Todd Lincoln was dealing with mental issues due to the loss of their son. Then the 13th Amendment was on the table to make the war more important to maintain the union. The Emancipation Proclamation may not have kept slaves free. Also Pennsylvania's Representative Stevens, wife was named was most likely Lydia Smith [she was of mixed or mulatto ethnicity], not Charity Butler. The story was interesting and inspiring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KXG_RQ3seQ You may need your Youtube account to see this link on Lincoln. Fact Check: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/ Please ask your parents if it is okay to see the middle hour we did not see. Good luck. |
Philosophie: Salon CenterEveryone of us is living history. We all have a story to tell and the ancestors that came before us that carved a way for us to become a new member of civilization. We also are learning that we are all related genetically and culturally in the family of humanity. All people’s past becomes part of all of us, and will always be completely intertwined with the entire world community.
Author's NOTEFrom time to time we will have some ideas from words that give us wisdom about our world. Writers are some of the most insightful people that understand our modern and ancient world quite well. Feel free to read, think, comment on these ideas. It seems that some of the students would like to debate issues of government, economics, and history. This can be a forum for this idea. Also if you would like to do formal debates in class we need to prepare debate rule and procedures. This can be a start and then we can decide if we will proceed to bring the debates in class on topics we study. Please follow our classroom rules if you decided to write on the blog. Make sure that you ask questions, and be helpful, and mature in all your interactions. This can be a helpful way for you to share what you have learned and what you want to learn, or just share ideas. Also just submit an idea through an email, or web contact, and we can maybe add the idea. Send a picture with the suggestion for the classes. Thank you. Archives
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Photos above left to right: The Solon, by Raphael was a depiction of the place where ideas were discussed and debated. Greek democracy in the public sphere. Here is the philosopher Seneca talking to Nero-Claudius Cesar Drusus Germanicus [Roman Emperor 54-68 BCE]- about society,law, politics, ethics and morality. Anthem for the doomed!
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