Bellwork
1. Scalawag was a derogatory name given by people in the South to who?
A. People in the South who had not supported the Confederacy
B. People in the South who had supported the Confederacy
C. People in the North who came to the South after the war to try and change things
D. People in the North they thought looked down on them
Answer: A
2. Why was the Freedman’s Bureau established?
A. To encourage freed slaves to vote
B. To place Radical Republicans in political office in the South
C. To make sure that each freed slave received his “40 acres and a mule”
D. To help former slaves gain the skills they needed to adjust to freedom
Answer: D
Reminders
•  Study notes nightly
Agenda
 Notes/Discussion: Reconstruction
Key Focus:
•  Black Codes
  Student Group Activity: Students using graphic
organizer and primary source to analyze Black
Codes
  Closure: Ticket Out the Door
  Reflection: Journalist Assignment
Quick Review
1.  What were the 13th, 14th and 15th
Amendments
2. What was the Freedmen’s Bureau’s
greatest success?
Education- Built over 3000 schools in the
South!
Relevance
When do people find it
necessary to implement new
laws?
Focus Statement
Analyze the role of Black Codes
during Reconstruction .
Growing Northern Alarm!
«  Many Southern state
constitutions fell short of
minimum requirements.
«  Johnson granted 13,500 special
pardons.
«  Revival of southern defiance.
BLACK CODES
Black Codes
What were Black Codes?
What was the purpose of the Black Codes?
Slavery is Dead?
Black Codes
« Purpose:
* 
Guarantee stable labor
supply now that blacks
were emancipated.
* 
Restore pre-emancipation
system of race relations.
« Forced many blacks to
become sharecroppers
[tenant farmers].
Focus Statement
Analyze the role of Black Codes
during Reconstruction .
Black Codes
•  Restricted the rights of newly freed blacks
•  Prohibited blacks from renting land or borrowing
money to buy land
•  Placed freedmen into a form of servitude by forcing
them as “vagrants” and “apprentices” to sign work
contracts
•  Worked in cotton fields under white supervision for
deferred wages
•  Prohibited blacks from testifying against whites in
court
Pair Share
Partners are to discuss:
•  Why do you think the South Carolina Black
Codes (as well as the Black Codes of
other Southern states) caused many in the
North to question the motives of
Southerners toward blacks after the Civil
War? What do you think was the real
intent of the laws?
Thinking Back
•  Students will complete a list of
slave codes
8-5.1 Analyze the role of Black Codes during Reconstruction
in the South.
•  Students will complete chart analyzing Black Codes
•  I Do: The teacher will model using informational text/
primary sources to find relevant information on the
Black Codes using a graphic organizer
•  We Do: Work together on analyzing information on the
Black Codes using informational text and graphic
organizer
•  You Do: The students will complete the graphic
organizer
•  Students will then share responses
Practice
Guided
Black Codes v/s Slave Codes
Slaves Codes Black Codes
Marriage
Travel
Property
Work
Education
Ticket out the Door
• What was the purpose of
the Black Codes?
Closure
Reflection
•  Students are to pretend to be a northern
journalist who has been assigned to expose
unfair southern laws.
•  Students will then write an article on one these
laws.
•  Articles will then be combined into a newsletter
that is designed to promote justice for African
Americans.
•  Groups will also get together to work on design
and layout of the newsletter.