Give Me Liberty : Chapter 15 Lecture Slides (Reconstruction)

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Eric Foner

Give Me Liberty! AN AMERICAN HISTORY

FOURTH EDITION

Chapter 15"What Is Freedom?":

Reconstruction, 1865–1877

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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?


• Blacks and the Meaning of Freedom


• Families in Freedom• Church and School

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


• Political Freedom• Land, Labor, and Freedom


• Masters without Slaves• The Free Labor Vision


The Great Labor Question from a SouthernPoint of View


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


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


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


• Toward a New South• The White Farmer


• The Urban South• Aftermaths of Slavery

The Making of Radical Reconstruction

Focus Question:

What were the sources, goals, and competing visions for Reconstruction?


Chinese laborers at work on a Louisianaplantation during Reconstruction


• Andrew Johnson• The Failure of Presidential

Reconstruction


• The Black Codes• The Radical Republicans


Selling a Freeman to Pay His Fine atMonticello, Florida


• The Origins of Civil Rights


• The Fourteenth Amendment

Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyPresident Andrew Johnson,

in an 1868 political cartoon


A Democratic Party broadside from the electionof 1866 in Pennsylvania


• The Reconstruction Act• Impeachment and the Election of Grant


A Democratic Party ribbon from the electionof 1866 in Pennsylvania


• The Fifteenth Amendment• The “Great Constitutional Revolution”


• Boundaries of Freedom• The Rights of Women• Feminists and Radicals


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


A Delegation of Advocates of Woman SuffrageAddressing the House

Radical Reconstruction in the South

Focus Question:

What were the social and political effects of Radical Reconstruction in the South?


• “The Tocsin of Freedom”• The Black Officeholder


Electioneering at the South, an engraving fromHarper’s Weekly


• Carpetbaggers and Scalawags• Southern Republicans in Power• The Quest for Prosperity


A Group of Black Students and their Teacher

The Overthrow of Reconstruction

Focus Question:

What were the main factors, in both the North and the South, for the abandonment of Reconstruction?


• Reconstruction’s Opponents• “A Reign of Terror”


• The Liberal Republicans• The North’s Retreat


A Mississippi Member of the Ku Klux Klan


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


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

of 1877


• The End of Reconstruction

Review

The Meaning of FreedomFocus Question: What visions of freedom did the former slaves and slaveholders pursue in the postwar South?

The Making of Radical ReconstructionFocus Question: What were the sources, goals, and competing visions for Reconstruction?

Radical Reconstruction in the SouthFocus Question: What were the social and political effects of Radical Reconstruction in the South?

The Overthrow of ReconstructionFocus Question: What were the main factors, in both the North and the South, for the abandonment of Reconstruction?

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Eric Foner on the aftermath of slavery

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Eric Foner on the lives of freedmen http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4/mp4/&f=question081

Eric Foner on the Reconstruction amendments

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Eric Foner on the successes and failures of Reconstruction


Eric Foner on Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights Bill


Eric Foner on the 14th Amendment http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4/mp4/&f=question085

Eric Foner on the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

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Next Lecture PREVIEW:—— Chapter 16 ——

America's Gilded Age, 1870–1890

• 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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