Reconstruction

Name: Alex Infusino and Elmo Chae Class/Subject: 8th Grade Social Studies - Civil War Reconstruction Date: 2/25/2013 Student Objectives/Student Outcomes: For students to examine the effects of the Civil War on the U.S. and discover the pathways created towards Reconstruction Students to recognize and put into categories different objectives that helped meet the goals of Reconstruction

Content Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources. How? This will be accomplished through our presentation and shared reading of the Freedmans Bill on how the initiatives of the Ten Percent Plan, Wade-Davis Bill, and Freedmans Bureau helped reconstruct the country. They will take the information from these and put them on the assessment worksheet. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.3: Identify key steps in a texts description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered). How? This will be accomplished through the students noticing the steps that needed to be taken by the country after the civil war and why. The warm-up activity and our introduction to class will accomplish this. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.7 Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts. How? Our video clip at the end on the assassination of Lincoln, and our gridded worksheet will help the students visualize how event are connected and how history is altered.

Materials/Resources/Technology: - The students should should have a pencil and paper - The students should be handed out the assessment worksheet during lecture (provided below) - Reconstruction After the Civil War Prezi (PDF provided below) - Freedmans Bureau Bill (Sections 1, 2, and 4): http://www.sewanee.edu/Faculty/Willis/Civil_War/documents/Freedmen'sBureau.html - Lincoln Being Assassinated Video Here: http://www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln-assassination/videos#driving-force-behindlincolns-assassination

Teachers Goals: For students to successfully read and analyze a primary source. For the students to draw connections from the costs of the Civil War and its immediate impact on the U.S. To examine the various methods enacted by the U.S. government during the period of Reconstruction

Time 5 mins Start of Class: The students will be asked the question: After the Civil War ended, do you think the confederates should have been punished? Why or Why not? How? (fined, jail time, something else?) on the Promethean board. They students should take this time to write down their answers and be prepared to share their thoughts after the time is up. After the time is up, the students should be asked to share their answers to the discussion question. Using their responses to transition into the lessons main topic Reconstruction After the Civil War

5 mins

Introduction of Lesson: Using Prezi presentation Reconstruction After the Civil War you will introduce what the United States actually did after the Civil War in Reconstruction of the Union. There were three main goals of reconstruction: - To Unify the Nation - Rebuild after a costly war -Rejoining the union under federal law

15 mins

Lesson Instruction: The students will receive a worksheet, in the form of a grid, that they can fill out as we go through the Prezi presentation. We will introduce three methods that were initially used to pursue the goals of reconstruction: -The Ten Percent Plan -The Wade-Davis Bill -The Freedmans Bureau

Well go through the Ten Percent Plan and the Wade-Davis Bill briefly, and then hand out portions of the Freedmans Bureau Bill for us to read together.

10 mins

Assessments/Checks for Understanding: Well have the worksheet up on the Promethean board so that we can go through and check to make sure they all follow what was going on and understand the portions of the Freedmans Bureau Bill.

5 mins

Closure/Wrap-Up/Review: Well review the main goals of Reconstruction and the methods that they tried to reach these goals. Then we will introduce the assassination of President Lincoln with a short video clip.

Self-Assessment: Observation form will be given to Ms. Biava for evaluation, which we will go over the lesson during her planning period in 2nd hour.

FREEDMANS BUREAU BILL (WITH SHARED READING SUMMARIES HERE):

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby established in the War Department, to continue during the present war of rebellion, and for one year thereafter, (There is a War department, that will operate from the present time of the Civil War until 1 year after) a bureau of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned lands, to which shall be committed, as hereinafter provided, the supervision and management of all abandoned lands, (They are going to supervise the newly freed people, refugees and abandon lands) and the control of all subjects relating to freedmen from rebel states, or from any district of country within the territory embraced in the operations of the army, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the head of the bureau and approved by the President. The said bureau shall be under the management and control of a commissioner to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, whose compensation shall be three thousand dollars per annum, and such number of clerks as may be assigned to him by the Secretary of War, not exceeding one chief clerk, two of the fourth class, two of the third class, and five of the first class.

(Who is going to be working for the president a chief clerk, where from, and how much they are going to be allotted.) And the commissioner and all persons appointed under this act, shall, before entering upon their duties, take the oath of office prescribed in an act entitled "An act to prescribe an oath of office, and for other purposes," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the commissioner and the chief clerk shall, before entering upon their duties, give bonds to the treasurer of the United States, the former in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and the latter in the sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of their duties respectively, (Money in order to be paid to these people for their work) with securities to be approved as sufficient by the Attorney-General, which bonds shall be filed in the office of the first comptroller of the treasury, to be by him put in suit for the benefit of any injured party upon any breach of the conditions thereof. (These acts will be voted upon and approved by the Senate and those in the Bureau, and are solely for those who are injured and need the help) Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War may direct such issues of provisions, clothing, and fuel, as he may deem needful for the immediate and temporary shelter (They are going to get provisions land, clothing, and fuels as needed) and supply of destitute and suffering refugees and freedmen and their wives and children, under such rules and regulations as he may direct. (The Secretary of War is not just helping those directly involved, but also their families)

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the commissioner, under the direction of the President, shall have authority to set apart, for the use of loyal refugees and freedmen, such tracts of land within the insurrectionary states as shall have been abandoned, or to which the United States shall have acquired title by confiscation or sale, or otherwise, (The commissioner will be use the land that was left behind or won during the war as part of the provisions mentioned in section 2) and to every male citizen, whether refugee or freedman, as aforesaid, there shall be assigned not more than forty acres of such land
(Every male citizen, regardless of whether they are a free man or a refugee will receive 40 acres of land)