Teacher-prepared notes show students what is important and how ideas relate, and offer a model for how students should take notes themselves (Marzano et al., 2001). These notes look at Lincoln, Johnson, and Congress's plans for Reconstruction 1865-1877. Specifically, these notes look at how Lincoln, Johnson, and Congress tried to answer the following questions: 1.) How should Southern states be readmitted, 2) What should be done to help free African Americans, and 3) Who should be in charge of R