Mon: Labor day
Tue:
- Forum post leader discussion
- Test preparation
-> War between South and North
-> Concerns South that Lincoln became president :
-> South: -Lincoln prohibiting slavery
-> Lincoln: we don't want slavery in the new territory
-> Lincoln gave the emancipation proclamation
-> more people, navy, better railways,better industry, more food, more stable government, better president: North
-> better knew train+ was better with weapons+ better reasons to fight: south
-> north won
-> General Lee started to appomattiox
-> south surrenderd
Reconstruction
- 1865 - 1877
- The period of time after the civil war in which the south had to rebuilt and recognized and brought back into the union
- president Lincoln and Johnson wanted to be easy on the south
- changed in the 1866 congressional election
- rebuilt south economically
-> not so focused on agriculture-> more industry
- socially: get families together
-- political: not let white racist stay in the government
- north and south stayed split
- 13th- bawl slavery
- 14th - give African American citizenship, equal protection of the law, process
-15th- give black males the right to vote
- Freedmen's Bureau set up to help former slaves
- people from the north went to the south to
- carpetbaggers - northern that went into the south to take the governtment
- scalawags - southerner helped the carpetbaggers
- governtment set up schools, raised taxes, built railroads
- government accused of widespread corruption by southerners
- left very deep divisions between the northern states and southern states
- once the northern governments and military left the south traditional rich white racist males took back over
End of reconstruction
- election of 1877
- Republican Rutherford B Hayes was awarded the white houseover Democratic Samuel J Tilden
- Unwritten deal between Northern and Southern politicans that settled the heavily disputed 1876 US presidential election
- Tilden won
Student Topics not on list
- French and Indian war 1754- 1763
-> British against Frence > Britain won 1781- 1788
- Articles of Confederation> each state was its own country no president
- Industrial Revolution 1800s > more industrial
- War of 1812 > British against US
- Women's right movement 1848 - Seneca Falls , Alcohol, vote, labor laws
- events leading up to civil war Lincoln's election of 1860
Wed:
Test 7th grade review
Thu:
Test 7th grade review
Fri:
Talk about 9/11
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