Reconstruction: Traditional View of Reconstruction Carpetbaggers Scalawags Radical Republicans Presidential Reconstruction (1863-1867) Radical, or Congressional Reconstruction (1867-1877) Amendments: 13th (1865), 14th (1868), 15th (1870) Black Codes Memphis and New Orleans Riots Reconstruction Acts (1-4) “Bloody Shirt” Southern Republicans African Americans’ Participation in Politics Redemption (1870-1880) Liberal Republicans Ku Klux Klan Mississippi Plan Compromise of 1877
Thomas Nast, Compromise with the South, 1864
Memphis Riot, 1866
The First Vote
Members of 1868 Louisiana Legislature
Harry Mosler, The Lost Cause, 1868
White Man’s Government (Democratic Party)
(The members call each other thieves, liars, rascals, and cowards (The members call each other thieves, liars, rascals, and cowards.) Columbia. "You are Aping the lowest Whites. If you disgrace your Race in this way you had better take Back Seats."
Anti-Freedman’s Bureau Propaganda
“In Self Defense,” 1876
Thomas Nast’s version of Reconstruction
“Our Uncle Going to Take a Rest,” 1877
Redemption