Chapter 15 "What Is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865–1877.

Chapter 15"What Is Freedom?":

Reconstruction, 1865–1877

The Meaning of Freedom

• Blacks and the Meaning of Freedom


• Families in Freedom• Church and School


• Political Freedom

• Land, Labor, and Freedom


• Masters without Slaves• The Free Labor Vision


• The Freedmen’s Bureau• The Failure of Land Reform


• Toward a New South• The White Farmer


• The Urban South• Aftermaths of Slavery

The Making of Radical Reconstruction

• Andrew Johnson• The Failure of Presidential

Reconstruction


• The Black Codes• The Radical Republicans


• The Origins of Civil Rights


• The Fourteenth Amendment


• The Reconstruction Act• Impeachment and the Election of

Grant


• The Fifteenth Amendment• The “Great Constitutional

Revolution”


• 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 Liberal Republicans• The North’s Retreat


• The Triumph of the Redeemers• The Disputed Election and Bargain of

1877


• The End of Reconstruction

Additional Art from Chapter 15

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Family Record, a lithograph marketed to formerslaves after the Civil War


A post–Civil War photograph of an unidentifiedblack family


The Great Labor Question from a SouthernPoint of View


The Freedmen’s Bureau, an engraving fromHarper’s Weekly


A black family in the cotton fields after the Civil War,photographed in 1867.


Chinese laborers at work on a Louisianaplantation during Reconstruction.


Selling a Freeman to Pay His Fine atMonticello, Florida


A Democratic Party broadside from the electionof 1866 in Pennsylvania


Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner, an engraving by ThomasNast from Harper’s Weekly


A Delegation of Advocates of Woman SuffrageAddressing the House


Electioneering at the South, an engraving fromHarper’sWeekly


The Operations of the Registration Laws andNegro Suffrage in the South


Black students outside a schoolhouse in a post–CivilWar photograph. The teacher is seated at the far right.


Two Members of the Ku Klux Klan in Their Disguises,from Harper’s Weekly


Changes in graphic artist Thomas Nast’s depictionof blacks in Harper’s Weekly

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