Alan Brinkley, American History 14/e Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South

Highlights The Problems of Peacemaking Radical Reconstruction The South in Reconstruction The Grant Administration The Abandonment of Reconstruction The New South © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Problems of Peacemaking The Aftermath of War and Emancipation The Devastated South Myth of the “Lost Cause” Charleston, SC 1865 (Royalty-Free/CORBIS) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Problems of Peacemaking Competing Notions of Freedom Freedom for the Ex-Slaves The Freedmen’s Bureau A Freedman’s Bureau school (U.S. Military Institute, Carlisle, PA) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Problems of Peacemaking Issues of Reconstruction Conservative and Radical Republicans Plans for Reconstruction Lincoln’s 10% Plan Wade-Davis Bill © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Problems of Peacemaking The Death of Lincoln John Wilkes Booth Lincoln’s funeral procession (Royalty-Free/CORBIS) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Problems of Peacemaking Johnson and “Restoration” Andrew Johnson’s Personality Northern Attitudes Harden © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Radical Reconstruction The Black Codes Johnson’s Vetoes The Fourteenth Amendment Citizenship for Blacks © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Radical Reconstruction The Congressional Plan Three Reconstruction Bills Fifteenth Amendment The Impeachment of the President Tenure of Office Act Johnson Acquitted © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Radical Reconstruction © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The South in Reconstruction The Reconstruction Governments “Scalawags” “Carpetbaggers” Freedmen The Louisiana Constitutional Convention, 1868 (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The South in Reconstruction Education Segregated Schools Landownership and Tenancy Failure of Land Redistribution Sharecropping © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The South in Reconstruction The Southern Plantation Before and After Emancipation © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The South in Reconstruction The Crop-Lien System New System of Credit The African American Family in Freedom Changing Gender Roles © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Grant Administration The Soldier President U. S. Grant Liberal Republicans Ulysses S. Grant (Royalty-Free/CORBIS) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Grant Administration The Grant Scandals Crédit Mobilier The “whiskey ring” The “Indian ring” Grant the Trapeze Artist, Joseph Keppler, 1880 (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Grant Administration The Greenback Question Panic or 1873 National Greenback Party Republican Diplomacy “Seward’s Folly” Alabama Claims © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Abandonment of Reconstruction The Southern States ”Redeemed” Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan Acts Enforcement Acts Decline of the Klan Burning cross (Licensed for Use) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Abandonment of Reconstruction The Election of 1876 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Abandonment of Reconstruction Waning Northern Commitment Impact of Social Darwinism The Compromise of 1877 Hayes versus Tilden Special Electoral Commission Compromise of 1877 Republican Failure in the South © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Abandonment of Reconstruction The Legacies of Reconstruction Ideological Limits © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The New South The “Redeemers” Industrialization and the “New South” Bourbon Rule The Readjuster Challenge Industrialization and the “New South” Henry Grady Railroad Development “Convict-Lease” System Tenants and Sharecroppers © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Crop-Lien System in 1880 The New South The Crop-Lien System in 1880 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The New South African Americans and the New South Black Middle Class Booker T. Washington The Atlanta Compromise Tuskegee students (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The New South The Birth of Jim Crow Plessy v. Ferguson Restricting the Franchise White Control Perpetuated Lynchings White Unity A lynch mob, 1893 (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.