PPT-A Nation Torn Apart The Civil War & Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877

The Civil War The War of Northern Aggression The War for Southern Independence The War Between the States The War of Rebellion The Confederate States of America 1861 States Rights Advantages . (1865 -- 1877): Successes and Failures. (. Unit III. , . Segment 3 of 3. ). Essential Question. :. What were the various plans to reconstruct the Union at the end of the Civil War?. Warm-Up Question:. Reconstruction. Main Questions For the Unit. What was Reconstruction?. How did Reconstruction change the power and the way the US government worked?. How did Reconstruction change life for African Americans?. Poorlincoln. . Political Parties of the North . Northern Democrats Split following the death of Stephen Douglas. War Democrats and Peace Democrats . War= Support Lincoln . Peace= want war to end- extremist were the Copperheads . Summarize the end of Reconstruction, including the role of anti–African American factions and competing national interests in undermining support for Reconstruction; the impact of the removal of federal protection for freedmen; and the impact of Jim Crow laws and voter restrictions on African American rights in the post-Reconstruction era. . America’s History. , 8. th. Edition,. . Chapter . 15 . Review Video. www.Apushreview.com. Check out the description for videos that match up with the new curriculum. . The Struggle for National Reconstruction. Reconstruction Issues. Closure: when is the Civil War period over?. Fate of defeated Confederates. Fate of former slaves. How to integrate Confederate states back into the U.S.. Role of federal gov’t vs. state gov’t. Key Questions. 1. How do we. bring the South. back into the . Union?. 2. How do we . rebuild the . South after its. destruction . during the war?. 3. How do we. integrate and. protect newly-. emancipated. (. Unit III. , . Segment 3 of 3. ). Essential Question. :. What were the various plans to reconstruct the Union at the end of the Civil War?. Warm-Up Question:. What problems exist now that the Civil War is over?. ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE. Conflict over the expansion of slavery into the territories west of the Mississippi River in the 1820s-1850s caused tensions to mount between northern (manufacturing) states and southern (farming) states. The real battle wasn’t about slavery, but POWER in GOVERNMENT and whether factories or farming would be the basis of our nation’s economy.. Sharecropping & Tenant Farming. Landowners . rented land to farmers who usually supplied them with farming tools and a crude house, farmers grew crops for landowners and kept a small percentage, often not enough to .   . Charleston . Physical destruction of the south. . The impact of war in the South. . Richmond. . The impact of war in the South. 2. . Economic conditions . Banks, businesses destroyed by inflation. 1850-1877. The Main Idea. By 1850 the issue of slavery dominated national politics, leading to sectional divisions and, finally, the secession of the southern states.. Reading Focus. How did the issue of slavery influence expansion in the 1850s?. The year is 1864 and it’s election season. . T. he U.S. has grown weary of the long & bloody Civil War. Hundreds of thousands of the countries' best & bravest young men had fallen on the fields of Bull Run, Antietam, Shiloh, & countless more. Many have begun to think that the war was not worth it, & the price of freedom too great. Abraham Lincoln believed no price was too great to pay for the abolition of slavery. Lincoln will with the ’64 election and see the Civil come to an end, but he will not live to help reconstruct the country he fought so bitterly to hold together…. Do now! . Please read “Abraham Lincoln: Verdict of History” and answer questions AND THEN…. Read “Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address” and answer question #s 1,2 and 5. (I) ELECTION OF 1864. Lincoln at odds with Congress over Reconstruction policy.