Reconstruction
Did the nation have an
opportunity to advance the cause
of racial justice?
Civil War & Racial Justice
Radicals, Abolitionists and Lincoln
 Emancipation Proclamation
 The War and Black Soldiers
 Amnesty and Reconstruction
 Wade Davis
 The Thirteenth Amendment
 Lincoln’s Death
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Meaning of Reconstruction
Ending Slavery
 Issues of Treason
 Reintegration of the South
 Andrew Johnson and Congress
 1865 & Southern Defeat
 Reports from the South
 Presidential Reconstruction
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Congressional Response
Freedmen’s Bureau Reauthorization
 Radicals Com’ite on Reconstruction
 Johnson and the Moderate GOP
 1866 Civil Rights Act
http://www.africanamericans.com/CivilRig
htsActof1866.htm
 Johnson Attacks Radicals: Swing Around
the Circle campaign in 66 Election
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Impeachment Battle
Radicals and Racial Justice
 Tenure of Office Act
 Command of the Army Act
 President Impeached: Eleven Articles
http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/
 Senate Vote: 35 v. 19
 Significance
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Congressional Reconstruction
Military Districts
 Radical Coalitions: The Disenfranchised
 Fourteenth Amendment
 Spirit of Defiance
 Fifteenth Amendment
 New Regimes
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Radical Democracy or
Miscegenation
The Newest South
 Black & Tan Conventions?
 Coalition: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers
 Corruption and Incompetence
 Blacks and Whites take office
 New Constitutions
 Intimidation and Sabatoge
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Failure of Reconstruction
Death of Radicals: Voice of Justice
 National Issues: IR, Frontier, Immigration
 The Grant Administration
 KKK http://www.kkklan.com/
 The Redeemers
 Jim Crow, Poll Taxes and Sharecropping
 The Courts and the New South
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Old V. New South
Jim Crow and Plessey Decision
 Sharecropping economy
 Political Disenfranchisement
 Terror and incident of Lynching
 Accommodation of Booker T. Washington
 Frederick Douglass: Agitate, Agitate …
 WEB Du Bois and Niagara Movement
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