EVALUATE THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION PROVED TO BE A TEST OF THE SUPREMACY OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT. 

Week 3 Day 4 [second]

MACRO CONCEPTS MICRO CONCEPTS Conflict-Issues/problems that can lead to fighting without compromise.

Reform-The method of fixing, improving and correcting [change for the better]

Power-Authority to control usually by law.

National Supremacy-Concept that in any conflict between the federal/national government and state government that federal/national government shall prevail.

Nationalism-Extreme love for your nation and exaggerated patriotism

Reconstruction-The act of rebuilding/reuniting the Union after the U.S. Civil War.

MILITARY RECONSTRUCTION

Because there was a lot of disagreement in the U.S. Congress and still desire for Southern rebellion Lincoln installed military rule.

The South was separated into 5 military districts with Military governors who controlled the regions.

Resentment, shame and hard feelings arose in the heart of many Southerners who believed they were being repressed.

13TH AMENDMENT One week before President Lincoln was assassinated

the 13th Amendment passed the U.S. House of Representatives.

One year later the 13th Amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution.

The 13th Amendment banned, prohibited and forbade slavery within the United States and its territories.

14TH AMENDMENT In 1868 the 14th Amendment was added to the U.S.

Constitution in order to provide equal protection to all citizens under the law.

The intent of this law was to ban discrimination against people who at one time were slaves and to destroy racist state laws such as the Grandfather Clause.

It took nearly 100 years for the full effect of 14th Amendment to take place because of court challenges.

15TH AMENDMENT In 1870 the 15th Amendment prohibited voting discrimination.

The specific language states that voting rights cannot be restricted based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Voting rights can only be restricted based on age and criminal convictions.

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1866 This federal law banned discrimination

against all people with the exception of some same Native-American tribes.

The purpose of the law was to combat racism and discrimination.

ELECTION OF 1866 Elections throughout the United

States centered around whether to support or reject Reconstruction.

Radical Republicans wanted to continue military occupation in South. Southern Democrats wanted Jim Crow laws.

President wanted a lenient Reconstruction.

The Republican party [not the radicals] won most of the elections and but military occupation lasted only a few years longer.

Election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877

U.S. citizens were mostly fed up with the ineptitude of President Grant and the depressed economy.

The alleged corruption and suspected scandals committed by Grant’s administration had soured American voters.

New York Governor Samuel E. Tilden the democratic candidate opposed former General and Southerner Rutherford B. Hayes.

Tilden actually won the popular vote but due to Southern violence and pressure from railroad companies a deal was struck to give the presidency to Hayes in exchange for White House patronage [jobs]. Hayes lasted one term

Choice Board

[1] Draft a letter as Lincoln’s secretary convincing the U.S. that military Reconstruction is necessary

[2] Create a poster supporting passage or rejection of the 13th Amendment

[3] Create a poster demanding to bring the Grandfather Clause back to undermine the 15th Amendment

[4] Create a 6-panel cartoon strip describing the Compromise of 1877

[5] Create a list of 10 racist incidents that occurred and led to the Civil Rights Act of 1866 being passed

[6] Write a personal letter to Congress thanking them or complementing them for the 14th Amendment

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