Third Nine Weeks
Benchmarks
• SSUSH10 The student will identify legal, political, and social
dimensions of Reconstruction.
• a. Compare and contrast Presidential Reconstruction with Radical
Republican Reconstruction.
• b. Explain efforts to redistribute land in the South among the former
slaves and provide advanced education (Morehouse College) and
describe the role of the Freedmen’s Bureau.
• c. Describe the significance of the 13th, 14th, and 15th
amendments.
• d. Explain Black Codes, the Ku Klux Klan, and other forms of
resistance to racial equality during Reconstruction.
• e. Explain the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in relationship to
Reconstruction.
• f. Analyze how the presidential election of 1876 and the subsequent
compromise of 1877 marked the end of Reconstruction.
. What is Presidential
Reconstruction?
• 10% PLAN
• Take oath of allegiance to the U.S.
• Both Lincoln and Johnson wanted to let
states to enter back into the U.S. as fast
as possible.
Radical Republicans
• People in Congress hat wanted to punish
the South after the Civil War
• Struggled with Presidents on this issue
Freedman’s Bureau
• Educated, fed, help shelter, all displaced
former slaves and poor whites in the South
after the Civil War.
Redistribution of Land during
Reconstruction
• Share cropping- owner lets someone work the
land (with the landowner’s tools) then the crops
sold off this profit is split between the owner and
worker.
• Was a cyclical job (never ending)
• Tenant Farming- rent land from someone and
use your own tools. All profits are yours.
• Most former slaves did not have the tools or the
money to rent.
Significance of Morehouse
• Historically black college that was formed
during the time period of Reconstruction.
• Benefited the African Americans of the
timeperiod.
Thirteenth Amendment
• Abolished Slavery
• (Freedom)
Fourteenth Amendment
• Citizenship
Fifteenth Amendment
• The right to vote for all males
Reconstruction Amendments
• Were the strength of Reconstruction
• Ways that people tried to stop these
Amendments:
• Limit the Former slaves by Black Codes”, “Jim
Crow laws”, Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, and groups
like KKK.
Black Codes
• Laws made up by Southern Sates after the
Civil War
• Made to limit the movement of African
Americans
• These stopped the guarantee of Civil
Rights of Freedmen
Ku Klux Klan
• Vigilante Tactics to suppress the Civil
Rights of Former slaves.
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment
• Violated the Tenure in Office Act
• Accused but not found guilty (by one vote)
• He was truly impeached because it was a power
struggle over reconstruction (Presidential
Reconstruction vs. Congressional/Radical
Republican Reconstruction)
• Proceedings carried out in Congress- House of
Rep. Brought charges, Senate tried the case.
President Elected in 1876
• Rutherford B. Hayes
• Significant because he promised to
remove all military from the Reconstruction
South. This was known as Compromise of
1877
• The South returned to the segregation,
Jim Crow Laws and limited African
Americans in the South.
SSUSH11 The student will describe the economic,
social, and geographic impact of the growth of big
business and technological innovations after
Reconstruction.
• a. Explain the impact of the railroads on other industries,
such as steel, and on the organization of big business.
• b. Describe the impact of the railroads in the
development of the West; include the transcontinental
railroad, and the use of Chinese labor.
• c. Identify John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil
Company and the rise of trusts and monopolies
• d. Describe the inventions of Thomas Edison; include the
electric light bulb, motion pictures, and the phonograph,
and their impact on American life
How did big business impact the
U.S.
• It was interdependent
• People from one industry made money in
both vertical and horizontal integration.
How is Steel different than Iron?
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Iron is heavier
Takes more to make Iron
Iron rusts
Iron does crack
Steel is lighter
Steel is malleable
How is Steel made?
• Oxygen is blown into the process of
creating iron
• Called the Bessemer Process
• Made it lighter and more malleable
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Who was the RR Tycoon?
• Andrew Carnegie
What was the benefit of the
Transcontinental RR?
• Supplies and mail could move rapidly
across the U.S.
What labor force was used to
create the transcontinental RR?
• Chinese
• cheap
What is a Trust?
• A controlled pricing between sellers of a
product
• What is the goal of a trust?
• Eliminate competition
What is a monopoly?
• Complete control of an industry.
What product did Rockefeller
produce?
• Oil
• (Standard Oil)
Three inventions of Thomas
Edison?
• Phonograph
• Motion Picture
• Electric Light Bulb
• Music/Sound
• Entertainment
• Lights for factories- work all night!
• SSUSH12 The student will analyze important
consequences of American industrial growth.
• a. Describe Ellis Island, the change in immigrants’
origins to southern and eastern Europe and the impact of
this change on urban America.
• b. Identify the American Federation of Labor and Samuel
Gompers.
• c. Describe the growth of the western population and its
impact on Native Americans with reference to Sitting Bull
and Wounded Knee.
• d. Describe the 1894 Pullman strike as an example of
industrial unrest.
What is Ellis Island
• Island in NY where Immigrants were
processed as they came to the U.S.