An Unfinished Revolution?

The Legacy of Reconstruction

To consider in order to help answer this question:

Is it simply the negation of slavery? What comes with it? What is being abolished exactly? How much do you have to abolish to truly get rid of slavery/ achieve freedom?

Answer for these three groups: freedmen, victorious north, white south

What exactly is freedom?

Freedmen:

Victorious North:

White South

For each group (Freedmen, Victorious North and White South) sum up what they wanted from Reconstruction in 1-3 words

CHEW ON THIS INFO.

Freedman’s Bureau

“Wrong man,

wrong values,

at the wrong time”

- Frederick Douglass

Andrew Johnson

Presidential Reconstruction

Make a prediction

about what the

Emboldened South may

choose to do next.

PREDICTION…PREDICTION…

Black Codes: A recreation of slavery if not in name then in fact.