CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: RECONSTRUCTION, 1863–1877

The Defeated South

            Wealth

Skin color

Abraham Lincoln’s Plan

            10 % plan

The Radical Republican Vision

            Wade-Davis Bill

            Pocket veto

            Special Field Order 15

            Freedman’s Bureau

Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction

            Personal story

            Views on race

            13^th Amendment

            Black codes

Civil Rights Act (1866)

14^th Amendment

Congressional Reconstruction and the Impeachment Crisis

            Reconstruction Act

            Tenure of Office Act

            Impeachment hearing

The Election of 1868

            Ku Klux Klan

            15 Amendment

Woman Suffrage and Reconstruction

            ASWA, NSWA

“Moving About”

The African American Family

African American Churches and Schools

Land and Labor after Slavery

            Sharecropping

            Tenant farming

The Origins of African American Politics

            Union League

Southern Republicans

            Carpetbaggers

            Scalawags

White Resistance and “Redemption”

            KKK Act (1875)

            Civil Rights Act (1875)

            Supreme Court

White Yeomen, White Merchants, and “King Cotton”

            “The New South”

The Age of Capital

            RR, Irish, Chinese, Transcontinental RR

Liberal Republicans and the Election of 1872

The Depression of 1873

            Bad bonds

The Electoral Crisis of 1876

            Compromise of 1877