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Introduction to the Simulation
1865 marked the end of
America’s most terrible war and a year in which decisions involving government and
race still echo today. The simulation our class will play focuses on the early choices
that began Reconstruction. In this totally fictitious convention held in Washington D.C.
on New Year’s Eve 1865, you and your classmates will try to reach agreement on a set
of issues that the United States faced at that time. |
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Harper's Weekly
August 4, 1865
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A. Under what conditions should the
South be allowed back into the Union? Who in the former Confederate States of
America should be pardoned? |
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B. What political, economic and
social rights should Free Blacks and Freedmen acquire? |
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C. Who should control the process
of Reconstruction—Congress or the President? |
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D. Should Reconstruction be
implemented on a national or state level? |
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| There is no one correct set of answers or solutions
to the questions above. Rather, each of you playing one of sixteen different people
attending this convention will have to argue your position before your classmates. How
well you do so and the nature of the compromises you hammer out will determine the outcome
of the Convention. |
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