Activities for Lesson 14

Research carpet baggers. Answer these questions:

• Why did many Northerners go to the South after the Civil War?
• Why did the Southerners hat the carpetbaggers
• How did the military rule help the now freed slaves?
• How did the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments change the Constitution?

Have students draw a political cartoon about Reconstruction from the point of view of a freed slave or a Confederate soldier.