(March 4, 1865)

“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

 

What political office had Lincoln just been elected to for the second time?

What does the speaker hope to accomplish with this quote?

 

 

The Governor’s election –The Negro at the Ballot Box

What is going on in this picture?

 

How would elections be affected now that blacks have voting rights?

 

What is the white person attempting to do to the African American?

What changes during Reconstruction did the KKK attempt to fight?

 

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Mr. Carron's Social Studies Class
JFK Middle School
Port Jefferson Station, New York

STANDARD 1: History of the United States and New York

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their under-standing of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.

STANDARD 3: Geography Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their under-standing of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live— local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.

STANDARD 4: Economics

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their under-standing of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the U.S. and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and non-market mechanisms.