PC 1 Slavery -Andrew Johnson and Civl War Amendments-Student Prograem

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Educating Young People about the Constitution

www.BillofRightsInstitute.org

Presidents and the ConstitutionSlavery and the ConstitutionAndrew Johnson and the Civil

War Amendments


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Presidents and the Constitution Resources

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Slavery is a terrible fact of AmericanHistory. But on both sides of this issue youhad people and especially political leaderswho believed they could settle or endslavery once and for all.

What you might have done to settle theslavery issue and avoid a civil war.

Directions: Read Dr. Stuart Leibigers

essay on pages 68-70. Underline orhighlight the facts you think areimportant.


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Slavery and the Constitution

Constitutional Connection Activity

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Andrew Johnsons response to the Thirteenth andFourteenth Amendments

Objectives

Trace the constitutionalcontroversies ofAndrew Johnsons

presidency. Understand Johnsons

constitutionalobjections to theFourteenthAmendment and otherelements ofReconstruction.

Evaluate Johnsonsunderstanding of theConstitution.

Critical Engagement Question

How did President AndrewJohnson interpret theConstitution with respect to

restoring the Union after theCivil War?


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Background/Homework

Handout A: Andrew Johnson and the Civil War Amendments(critical thinking questions next slide).

Sharecropper plowing 13th Amendment

Andrew Johnson


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Andrew Johnson

Background/Homework continued

1. How was Johnsons goal forReconstruction different from thatof Republicans in Congress?

2. According to Johnson, what wasthe purpose of the Civil War?

3. In Johnsons view, which branch ofthe federal government wasresponsible for reconstruction?What was Congress view?

4. Why did Johnson support the

Thirteenth Amendment? Why didhe oppose the FourteenthAmendment?

5. In what ways is our nation stilldealing with the issues over which

Johnson and Congress clashed?

U.S. Capitol, 1846


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Activity

Handout B: Johnsons First Annual Message toCongress, December, 1865

Andrew Johnson


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Wrap-Up

Why do you thinkJohnsons plans forrestoration failed?

Were his objections tothe forced-ratificationof the FourteenthAmendmentlegitimate? Why or

why not? Did Johnson correctly

understand theConstitution?

Andrew Johnson

Reconstruction-Louisiana Outrages, 1874


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Homework

Prove one of the following statements:

The Fourteenth Amendment radically altered the Constitution.

or

The Fourteenth Amendment merely emphasized principles that

were already in the Constitution.

Andrew Johnson

SegregateddrinkingfountainHalifax County

CourthouseNorth Carolina


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Extension

For each vetoed law summarize the following:

Name and date of bill

Purpose of bill

Why Johnson vetoed the bill Further Congressional action

if any

Outcome of the law, if applicable

14th

Amendment ofthe U.S. Constitution

Andrew Johnson


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The Issues Endure

How did the Supreme Courtinterpret the meaning ofthe FourteenthAmendment in each ofthese cases?

The Slaughterhouse Cases(1873)

The Civil Rights Cases(1883)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Brown v. Board ofEducation (1954)

Regents of the Universityof California v. Bakke

(1978)

Andrew JohnsonImpeachment Trial

in the Senate, 1868

Andrew Johnson

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