Transcript "What is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Chapter 15 "What Is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865–1877
The Meaning of Freedom
• Blacks and the Meaning of Freedom
The Meaning of Freedom
• Families in Freedom • Church and School
The Meaning of Freedom
• Political Freedom • Land, Labor, and Freedom
Map 15.1
The Barrow Plantation
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The Meaning of Freedom
• Masters without Slaves • The Free Labor Vision
The Meaning of Freedom
• The Freedmen’s Bureau • The Failure of Land Reform
The Meaning of Freedom
• Toward a New South • The White Farmer
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Sharecropping in the South, 1880
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The Meaning of Freedom
• The Urban South • Aftermaths of Slavery
The Making of Radical Reconstruction • Andrew Johnson • The Failure of Presidential Reconstruction
The Making of Radical Reconstruction • The Black Codes • The Radical Republicans
The Making of Radical Reconstruction • The Origins of Civil Rights
The Making of Radical Reconstruction • The Fourteenth Amendment
The Making of Radical Reconstruction • The Reconstruction Act • Impeachment and the Election of Grant
The Making of Radical Reconstruction • The Fifteenth Amendment • The “Great Constitutional Revolution”
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The Presidential Election of 1868
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The Making of Radical Reconstruction • Boundaries of Freedom • The Rights of Women • Feminists and Radicals
Radical Reconstruction in the South • “The Tocsin of Freedom” • The Black Officeholder
Radical Reconstruction in the South • Carpetbaggers and Scalawags • Southern Republicans in Power • The Quest for Prosperity
The Overthrow of Reconstruction • Reconstruction’s Opponents • “A Reign of Terror”
The Overthrow of Reconstruction • The Liberal Republicans • The North’s Retreat
The Overthrow of Reconstruction • The Triumph of the Redeemers • The Disputed Election and Bargain of 1877
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Reconstruction in the South, 1867-1877
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The Presidential Election of 1876
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The Overthrow of Reconstruction • The End of Reconstruction
Additional Art from Chapter 15
From the Plantation to the Senate
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Family Record, a lithograph marketed to former slaves after the Civil War
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A post–Civil War photograph of an unidentified black family
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Mother and Daughter Reading, Mt. Meigs
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Winslow Homer’s 1876 painting
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The Great Labor Question from a Southern Point of View
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The Freedmen’s Bureau, an engraving from Harper’s Weekly
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A black family in the cotton fields after the Civil War, photographed in 1867.
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Farmers with Cotton in the Courthouse Square
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Chinese laborers at work on a Louisiana plantation during Reconstruction
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Selling a Freeman to Pay His Fine at Monticello, Florida
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Thaddeus Stevens
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President Andrew Johnson, in an 1868
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A Democratic Party broadside from the election of 1866 in Pennsylvania
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A Democratic Party broadside from the election of 1866 in Pennsylvania
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The Fifteenth Amendment, an 1870 lithograph marking
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Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner, an engraving by Thomas Nast from Harper’s Weekly
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A Delegation of Advocates of Woman Suffrage Addressing the House
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Electioneering at the South, an engraving from Harper’sWeekly
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The First Vote, an engraving from Harper’s Weekly
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Black and white members of the Mississippi Senate
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The Operations of the Registration Laws and Negro Suffrage in the South
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The Shackle Broken—by the Genius of Freedom.
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Emancipation
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Black students outside a schoolhouse in a post–Civil War photograph. The teacher is seated at the far right.
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Murder of Louisiana, an 1873 cartoon
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A Prospective Scene in the City of Oaks
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Two Members of the Ku Klux Klan in Their Disguises, from Harper’s Weekly
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The Old Plantation Home
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Changes in graphic artist Thomas Nast’s depiction of blacks in Harper’s Weekly
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Of Course He Wants to Vote the Democratic Ticket
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Is This a Republican Form of Government?
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AN AMERICAN HISTORY THIRD EDITION by Eric Foner