Transcript CHAPTER 16 Reconstruction Abandoned, – 1877 1867

CHAPTER 16
Reconstruction Abandoned,
1867 – 1877
“. . . the slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then
moved back again toward slavery.” W.E.B. DuBois
“In years long numbered with the past, when I was merging upon
manhood, my every thought was ambitious – not to be wealthy, not
to be learned, but to be great. I desired to link my name with acts
and men, and in such a manner as to be a mark of honor, not only to
the present but to future generations.”
George Armstrong Custer, 1867
“The assumption that the cause of the Negro is a dead issue is an
utter delusion. For the moment he may be buried under the dust and
rubbish of endless discussion concerning civil service, tariff and free
trade, labor and capital. . .but our Lazarus is not dead. He only
sleeps.”
Frederick Douglass, 1884 speech
Chapter Review
 Explain the roles of African Americans and Native Americans in the
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post-Reconstruction period.
Know the provisions of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments to the Constitution.
Describe the successes and failures of Ulysses S. Grant’s presidency.
Briefly explain the reasons for the rising power of the Ku Klux Klan.
Explain how the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution impacted women.
Explain the defeat of the Plains Indians by whites. Try to offer at
least three reasons for the decline of the Plains Indian culture.
Concepts
 Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull
 George Armstrong Custer, Custer’s Last Stand
 Suffrage
 Susan B. Anthony
 Temperance
 Liberal Republicans
 Horace Greeley
 Alexander Graham Bell
 Compromise of 1877 --Samuel J. Tilden, Rutherford B.
Hayes
Concepts [continued]
 14th Amend. 1868 [ incorporation of Bill of Rights]
 Presidential v. Congressional Reconstruction
 Brigham family “Tenn. Reconstruction” letter
 Sharecropping
 W.E.B. Du Bois v. Booker T. Washington
 Grandmother Brigham, c.1883, friend of Jane Addams [knew
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Civil War veterans!]
Open door v. closed door foreign policy [1903]
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man; Movie Sounder
Mom’s “bag lady story” +1963 Birmingham – “I don’t believe there are
white people that evil in America.”
Corny Rievfeldt, Wayland Jones – farmers in Idaho, Texas
Resources
Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
W.E.B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction [1935]
Eric Foner. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution 18631877 [1980]
Philip Foner, Mother Jones Speaks [1983]
Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion [1995]
Theodora Kroeber, Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild
Indian in North America [1967]
David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race [1993];
W.E.B. DuBois: A Reader [1995]; W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight for
Equality and the American Century [1919-1963]
Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past
of the American West [1987]
John Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks [1961]
Frank Norris, The Octopus [1906]
Kevin Starr, Americans and the California Dream [1973]
Richard White, "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own"
Owen Wister, The Virginian, 1902
Resources [continued]
Fawn Brodie, Thaddeus Stevens [1959]
Leon F. Litwak,,Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the
Age of Jim Crow (1998).
James McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and
Reconstruction [1982]
Kenneth M. Stampp, The Era of Reconstruction, The
Changing South and West [1965]
C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877–1913
(1951); Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel (1938); The Strange
Career of Jim Crow (1955); Reunion and Reaction: The
Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction
[1956]
I.
A Presidency Under Siege: Andrew
Johnson Impeached
 Secretary of State William Seward negotiates purchase of
Alaska from Russia
 Woman suffrage supporters, angry over Fifteenth
Amendment, step up calls for suffrage
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The Grant Era
 Transcontinental railroad is completed
 Grant outlines moderate “peace policy” for dealing with
Native Americans
 Church groups attempt to help settle Native Americans,
but resistance leads to military force
Indian Reservations in the West
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III.
An Era of Scandals
 Divisions in Congress cause Grant problems
 Republican party also divided
 Ku Klux Klan actions lead to federal action
 Political machines take control of some city politics
 Split in Republican party fails to prevent Grant’s re-election
 Second administration scandal-filled
Election of 1872
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IV.
The Panic of 1873 and Its
Consequences
 Unemployment leads to labor unrest
 Grange becomes main organization for farmers
 States wade into railroad regulation
 Grant refuses to heed those calling for currency
expansion despite economic crisis
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Women in the 1870s
 Supreme Court declines to intervene concerning suffrage
 Voluntary associations emerge as women step up efforts for reform
 Women’s Christian Temperance Union is founded
 Women enter workforce in greater numbers but are relegated to a few
professions
VI.
Politics in the Gilded Age
 Both Democrats and Republicans become concerned
about growing African American influence
 Southern whites blame northern interference for situation
there
 Southern congressmen gain more power and begin talk of
“redeeming” the South
Reconstruction in the South
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VII. The End of Native American
Resistance
 Destruction of buffalo herds is greatest trauma to Native
American life in West
 Defeat of General Custer at Little Big Horn brings more
might down on Indians, whose resistance soon ends
VIII. The Election of 1876
 Grant administration scandals cause trouble for
Republican party
 Philadelphia centennial celebration for the country is filled
with marvels
 Disputed election of 1876 brings Hayes to White House,
and political deal brings end to Reconstruction
Election of 1876
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