Christensen

Weekly Overview
US History
January 4 – January 8

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the
right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who
shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish
a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

- Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

Unless otherwise indicated, assignments are due the day after they are assigned.
Day Topic Assignment

Monday Overview of the state of the Read 12.1 and 12.2. Get your
union at the end of the civil war. materials together to begin to
We will also get papers back review for the exam.
(Jackson essays and Civil War
tests). You will receive a
review guide for the exam and
we will discuss the exam
briefly.

Tuesday We will examine the plans for Read 12.3.

reconstruction and the impact
they had on lives in the south.

Wednesday The failure of Reconstruction. Review sections 1 and 2 on the

How can the end of military exam guide. Come prepared
reconstruction in the south and with questions.
the presidency of Rutherford B.
Hayes be seen as a betrayal of
freed slaves?

Thursday Exam review Parts 1 and 2. Review sections 2 and 3 on the

Please have your textbooks with exam guide. Come prepared
you in class for the next three with questions.
days.

Friday Exam review Parts 3 and 4. Review section 5 on the exam

Please have your textbooks with guide. Come prepared with
you in class for the next two questions.
days.