Transcript Chapter 15'What Is Freedom?': Reconstruction, 1865–1877

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Give Me Liberty!
AN AMERICAN HISTORY
FOURTH EDITION
by
Eric Foner
Chapter 15
"What Is Freedom?":
Reconstruction, 1865–
1877
The Shackle Broken—by the Genius of Freedom.
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The Meaning of Freedom
The Making of Radical Reconstruction
Radical Reconstruction in the South
The Overthrow of Reconstruction
The Meaning of
Freedom
 Focus Question:
What visions of freedom did the former
slaves and slaveholders pursue in the
postwar South?
The Meaning of
Freedom: After Slavery
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Blacks and the Meaning of Freedom
The Meaning of
Freedom: Black
Institutions
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Families in Freedom
Church and School
Family Record, a lithograph marketed to former
slaves after the Civil War
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The Meaning of
Freedom: Political and
social
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Political Freedom
Land, Labor, and Freedom
Five Generations of a Black Family
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Mother and Daughter Reading, Mt. Meigs
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Map 15.1 The Barrow Plantation
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The Meaning of
Freedom: Labor
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Masters without Slaves
The Free Labor Vision
The First African Church, Richmond
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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 Meaning of
Freedom: Land
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The Freedmen’s Bureau
The Failure of Land Reform
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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The Meaning of
Freedom: New Labor
System
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Toward a New South
The White Farmer
Map 15.2 Sharecropping in the South, 1880
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A Nursemaid and Her Charge
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The Meaning of
Freedom: The South
after slavery
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The Urban South
Aftermaths of Slavery
The Cotton Depot at Guthrie, Texas
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The Making of Radical
Reconstruction
 Focus Question:
What were the sources, goals, and
competing visions for Reconstruction?
Chinese laborers at work on a Louisiana
plantation during Reconstruction
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The Making of Radical
Reconstruction:
Johnson
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Andrew Johnson
The Failure of Presidential
Reconstruction
The Making of Radical
Reconstruction:
Opposition to Johnson
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The Black Codes
The Radical Republicans
Selling a Freeman to Pay His Fine at
Monticello, Florida
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Thaddeus Stevens
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The Making of Radical
Reconstruction: Civil
Rights
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The Origins of Civil Rights
The Making of Radical
Reconstruction: Legal
equality
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The Fourteenth Amendment
President Andrew Johnson,
in an 1868 political cartoon
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A Democratic Party broadside from the election
of 1866 in Pennsylvania
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The Making of Radical
Reconstruction:
Politics
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The Reconstruction Act
Impeachment and the Election of Grant
A Democratic Party ribbon from the election
of 1866 in Pennsylvania
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Map 15.3 The Presidential Election of 1868
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The Making of Radical
Reconstruction:
Constitution
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The Fifteenth Amendment
The “Great Constitutional Revolution”
The Fifteenth Amendment, an 1870 lithograph
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The Making of Radical
Reconstruction:
Women
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Boundaries of Freedom
The Rights of Women
Feminists and Radicals
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Nast from Harper’s Weekly
A Delegation of Advocates of Woman Suffrage
Addressing the House
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Radical Reconstruction
in the South
 Focus Question:
What were the social and political effects
of Radical Reconstruction in the South?
Radical Reconstruction
in the South: Black
Political activity
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“The Tocsin of Freedom”
The Black Officeholder
Electioneering at the South, an engraving from
Harper’s Weekly
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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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Radical Reconstruction
in the South: Economics
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Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
Southern Republicans in Power
The Quest for Prosperity
A Portrait of Hiram Revels
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Emancipation
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A Group of Black Students and
their Teacher
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The Overthrow of
Reconstruction
 Focus Question:
What were the main factors, in both the
North and the South, for the
abandonment of Reconstruction?
The Overthrow of
Reconstruction:
Opposition
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Reconstruction’s Opponents
“A Reign of Terror”
A Cartoon from Around 1870
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A Prospective Scene in the City of Oaks
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The Overthrow of
Reconstruction:
Northern critics
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The Liberal Republicans
The North’s Retreat
A Mississippi Member of the Ku Klux
Klan
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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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The Overthrow of
Reconstruction:
Election of 1876
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The Triumph of the Redeemers
The Disputed Election and Bargain
of 1877
Map 15.4 Reconstruction in the South, 1867–1877
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Map 15.5 The Presidential Election of 1876
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Of Course He Wants to Vote the Democratic Ticket
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The Overthrow of
Reconstruction:
Aftermath
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The End of Reconstruction
Is This a Republican Form of Government?
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Review
The Meaning of Freedom
Focus Question: What visions of freedom did the former slaves and
slaveholders pursue in the postwar South?
The Making of Radical Reconstruction
Focus Question: What were the sources, goals, and competing visions
for Reconstruction?
Radical Reconstruction in the South
Focus Question: What were the social and political effects of Radical
Reconstruction in the South?
The Overthrow of Reconstruction
Focus Question: What were the main factors, in both the North and
the South, for the abandonment of Reconstruction?
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America's Gilded Age,
1870–1890
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The Second Industrial Revolution
The Transformation of the West
Politics in a Gilded Age
Freedom in the Gilded Age
Labor and the Republic
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