Post-Civil War America, 1865-1900
Reconstruction
Abe Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Republicans
Democrats
Unionists
Secessionists
Union
Confederacy
U.S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Post-Civil War South
Post-Civil War North
Freedmen & Freedwomen
Education
Families
Land
Religion
Politics
What it Meant to be Free
Freedmen’s Bureau, 1865
Food
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Medicine
Schools
Howard University
Land Reform
40 Acres Plan
(40 Acres & a Mule Plan)
Ten Percent Plan, 1863
Republicans in Congress
Wade-Davis Bill
Iron-clad oath
Lincoln’s Assassination
John Wilkes Booth
Ford Theater, in D.C.
VP Johnson
Andrew Johnson as President
Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1867
Loyalty Oaths
Pardons
Provisional Governors
Black Codes
Slave Codes
Vagrancy Law
Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens
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Charles Sumner
Ben Wade
Radicals vs. Andrew Johnson
Freedmen’s Bureau
Civil Rights Bill
Veto Wars
Fourteenth Amendment, 1866
“equal protection under the law”
limits
Tennessee
Radical Reconstruction, 1867-1877:
Military Reconstruction Act, 1867
Re-admission into the Union
Second Reconstruction Act
Southern Stalling & Foot-dragging
1868 – seven states
1870 – remaining three states
Frustrations
Tenure of Office Act, 1867
Impeachment of 1867
Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
Fifteenth Amendment, 1868
Ulysses S. Grant
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Horatio Seymour
Ratified, 1870
Women’s Rights
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Olympia Brown
The Agitator
Republicans
Women Activists
Developments
Typewriter
Eliphalet Remington & Son
Proliferation of Women’s Clubs & Assocs.
Black Politicians & Officeholders
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Southern Republican Success
Sharecropping
White Landlords
Black Workers
Sharecropping System
“Slavery without Chains”
End of Reconstruction
In the North
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Civil Rights Act, 1875
Limits
Growing Disinterests
Panic of 1873
The Beginning of the End of Rep. rule
In the South
Intimidation of Black & Rep. voters
Ku Klux Klan, 1866
The Govt. Responds
Force Act of 1870
Ku Klux Klan Act, 1871
Mississippi Plan, 1875
Redeemers & Presidential Election of 1876
Rep. Candidate – Rutherford B. Hayes
Dem. Candidate- Samuel Tilden
Compromise of 1877
Jim Crow Laws
Racial Disenfranchisement
Poll Tax
Literacy Tests
Property Qualifications
Violence
Segregation
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De Facto
De Jure
Plessy v. Ferguson
Homer Plessy
Citizen’s Committee
Rodolph Dadune
Louisiana Separate Car Act, 1890
“separate but equal” doctrine
Lynching
The Black Response
1. Accommodation
2. Resistance
Booker T. Washington
Economic Self-Reliance
Atlanta Compromise
Ida B. Wells
Southern Horrors
WEB Dubois
Niagara Movement
NAACP, 1909
Black Cultural Life
June 19, 1865
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Juneteenth
Black Education
Pre-Civil War
Post-Civil War
Schools
Freedman’s Bureau
Rosenwald School Fund
Institutes of higher learning
Tuskegee Institute, 1881
Black Religion
Baptist Church
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church of Christ, 1866
First National Baptist Convention, 1868
Richard Allen
Bldg. Complete, 1879
Rev. John “Jack” Henry Yates
Houston Baptist Academy
Houston College
Texas Southern University
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