AMERICAN HISTORY UNIT 1 SETTLING THE WEST LESSON

AMERICAN HISTORY UNIT #1 – SETTLING THE WEST LESSON #2 – RECONSTRUCTION (67 -69)

THE WAR ENDS (66) - Union Gen. ____ and Gen. _____ Pounded on Confederate forces - Sherman encouraged _____ and ______ (war of attrition) - Confederate Gen. Lee was forced to surrender at ____________ on April 9, 1865. -Some Southerners refused to accept _____, like John Wilkes ______

Questions to ponder 1. Why were Grant and Sherman so destructive to the South? 2. Why were the surrender terms for Lee so soft and generous? 3. What had the South been fighting for? 4. Why even with soft terms, what will the reaction of the South be? 5. What will be the result of these emotions?

The Assassination of Pres. Lincoln • Celebrating across the North after Lee’s surrender • Washington DC was deep in Confederate territory • Booth conspired to murder the President • Booth ______ Lincoln at ______ during plan “An American Cousin” ____ days after Lee’s surrender • The one man capable of rebuilding the USA was now gone – ______ and haters would now take over the job, and blunder it all

OPPOSING PLANS FOR RECONSTRUCTION (67) - Pres. Lincoln offered amnesty for all Southerners who took an oath of _____ (1863) - Northern _____ remained in South (occupying force) - ________________ - (in Congress) – what did they do?

OPPOSING PLANS FOR RECONSTRUCTION - Pres. _______ – new Pres. after Lincoln was killed (1865) - Major tension between: - What did Southern state legislatures do? - What did Congress do? - How did Johnson respond?

RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS (68) What did each do? - 13 th Amendment (1865) – - Fourteenth Amendment (1866) - - Fifteenth Amendment (1870) -

THE SOUTH DURING RECONSTRUCTION (68) - Freeman’s Bureau – - Carpetbaggers – - Scalawags -

Compromise of 1877 (69) - President from 1868 -1876 – Ulysses Grant - Presidential election – 1876 - Controversy over who won - COMPROMISE OF 1877 – What was it?