Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877

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Reconstruction An Unfinished Revolution,
1865-1877

• What is Freedom?

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Objectives

• Clash Between Executive and Legislative Branches
  of Recontruction
• Evaluative Reconstruction for Freed men and women
• Grasp Constitutional Amendments
• Answer the questions posed by people at the time
  did the South gain victor, was freedom
  unfortonunte?

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Fires blaze while Union soldiers destroy railroad
tracks in Atlanta, Georgia, in this painting. The
scorched-earth policy of total war was
characteristic of Shermans March to the Sea.
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Union soldiers wrecking railroad lines (making
Shermans neckties), Atlanta, Georgia.
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Freed THE WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST   ADJUNCT-GENERA
L THOMAS ADDRESSING   THE NEGROES IN LOUISIANA ON
THE DUTIES OF FREEDOM
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Freemen
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They Fought For Themselves
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Ku Klux Klan, 1866Nathan Bedford Forrest
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Why did Reconstruction Fail?

• Corruption in the South
• Corruption in the North
• Ku Klux Klan
• Myth of negro Rule
• Industrialization, Class Conflict
• General Amnesty 1872
• Hayes-Tilden Election 1877

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Reading for Thursday

• Norton, 457-464
• Marcus 26-56