Thursday, January 6

Homework:

Due Friday 1-7

1. Any missing or late work is due tomorrow (it is the last day of 2nd quarter)

2. Prepare your book talk: Odelia, Jayson, Lola, and Roger are Friday

3. Read pp. 385-393 in ‘America Is’ and answer questions in margins

1. Who were some important black leaders in the South during Reconstruction?

2. What did most southern whites want for blacks?

3. Who were carpetbaggers?

4. Who were scalawags?

5. Why did people think there was corruption in the Reconstruction governments?

6. Why was there large-scale spending in the South?

7. What position did each party take in the election of 1868?

8. What was occurring in the northern attitude toward Reconstruction in the 1870’s?

9. What did Gould and Fisk attempt to do?

10. Who was involved in the Credit Mobilier scandal?

11. What southern states were under Republican control in 1876?

12. Who were the candidates in the Election of 1876?

13. How was the Election of 1876 decided?

14. Why was it so hard for blacks to prevent the loss of their rights?

Due Wed 1-12: First full draft of short story for peer editing (keep all short story materials in your manila folder)