Reconstruction
Traditional View of Reconstruction
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Radical Republicans
Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
Presidential Reconstruction (1863-1867)
Black Codes
Vagrancy, “apprenticeship” laws
Memphis and New Orleans Riots
Radical, or Congressional Reconstruction (1867-1877)
Amendments: 13th (1865), 14th (1868), 15th (1870)
Reconstruction Acts (1-4)
“Bloody Shirt”
Southern Republicans
African Americans’ Participation in Politics
Redemption (1870-1880)
Liberal Republicans
Ku Klux Klan
Mississippi Plan
Compromise of 1877
“If their whole country must be laid waste, and made
a desert, in order to save this Union from destruction,
so let it be. I would rather . . . Reduce them to a
condition where their whole country is to be repeopled by a band of freemen than to see them
perpetuate the destruction of this people through our
agency.” Thaddeus Stevens
Thomas Nast, Compromise with the South, 1864
Memphis Riot, 1866
The First Vote
Members of 1868 Louisiana Legislature
Harry Mosler, The Lost Cause, 1868
White Man’s Government (Democratic Party)
(The members call each other thieves, liars, rascals, and cowards.)
Columbia. "You are Aping the lowest Whites. If you disgrace your Race in
this way you had better take Back Seats."
Anti-Freedman’s Bureau Propaganda
“In Self Defense,” 1876
Thomas Nast’s version of Reconstruction
“Our Uncle Going to Take a Rest,” 1877
Redemption