Civil War and Reconstruction |
#1 |
This United State President was one of only two in US History to be impeached |
Andrew Johnson |
#2 |
What were the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments? |
Abolish slavery, equal protection under the law, right to vote |
#3 |
This Supreme Court Case limited the Federal Government's ability to regulate Slavery in the Territories |
Dred Scott v. Sanford |
#4 |
This traditionally markes the end of reconstruction |
Compromise of 1877? |
#5 |
This Court Case allows public segregation to be up held as constitutional |
Plessy V Ferguson |
Let's try some primary sources |
#1 |
Cheif Justice Tney is criticizing what Act of Lincoln '…And I am certainly adorned to it with some surprise, for I had supposed it to be one of those points of constitutional law upon which there was no difference of opinion and that it was admitted to all hands that the privilege of the writ could not be suspended, except by act of Congress' |
Lincoln's suspension of Habeus Corpus |
#2 |
Who is Speaking 'Sherman 'Until we can repopulate Georgia, it is useless to occupy it: but the utter destruction of its roads, houses and people will cripple their military resources. By attempting to hold the roads we will lose a thousand men monthly, and will gain no result. I can make the march and make Georgia howl. ...' |
William Tecumseh Sherman |
#3 |
What Philosophy is being put forth by Carnegie '“Thus is the problem of Rich and Poor to be solved. The laws of accumulation will be left free; the laws of distribution free. Individualism will continue, but the millionaire will be but a trustee for the poor; entrusted for a season with a great part of the increased wealth of the community, but administering it for the community far better than it could or would have done itself.” |
The Gospel of Wealth |
#4 |
Whose Image is htis and what is its historical impact |
How the Other Half lives Jacob Riis, Tenement Reform |
#5 |
Who is speaking? 'It is worse than idle to say that we have no duty to perform, and can leave to their fates the islands we have conquered. Such a course would be the course of infamy. It would be followed at once by utter chaos in the wretched islands themselves. Some stronger, manlier power would have to step in and do the work, and we would have shown ourselves weaklings, unable to carry to successful completion the labors that great and high-spirited nations are eager to undertake |
Roosevelt |