Yesterday in class, we focused mainly on the Fourteenth Amendment, the amendment to the Constitution that guaranteed rights to freed slaves, like certain priveleges and citizenship, due process, and protected every citizen equally. The Fourteenth Amendment was really about equality and the right to certain natural rights, as well as being protected by the law. It is a really important amendment because it makes each person that is born in the United States more of an equal kind. After we learned about the Fourteenth Amendment, we, in our groups, had 15 minutes to design a magazine cover that talks about the 14th Amendment and why it was important. Our group focused on marriage. The Amendment allowed marriage between freedmen, so we put that on the cover as big news. It was cool to see how people interpreted the Amendment and how they presented it.
Today in class, we used our groups to learn about the plans that were introduced in the time after the war. We looked at three different plans- Lincoln's plan, Johnson's Plan, and the final Act made by the Congress. It was nice to see how three different ways to reunite the South into the Union were made into ideas and presented as plans. Many people had many ideas about how to deal with the South after they lost the war. We came up with our own ideas about how we would have handled it and then ended the class with a discussion about what each person would do.
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