RECONSTRUCTION CH 14

Freedmen’s Bureau, 1866 (Granger)

Key Terms  Reconstruction  13 th, 14 th, 15 th Amendments  Freedmen’s Bureau  Abraham Lincoln  Andrew Johnson  John Wilkes Booth  sharecropping / tenant farming  scalawags / carpetbaggers  Knights of the Ku Klux Klan  Radical Republicans  Democrats & Redeemers  American Equal Rights Association  Historically Black Colleges & Universities  Henry McNeal Turner *  abolitionist movement  suffrage movement  National Woman Suffrage Association  American Woman Suffrage Association  Minor v. Happersatt  Frederick Douglass  Wendell Phillips  Frances Ellen Harper  Elizabeth Cady Stanton  Susan B. Anthony  Sojourner Truth  Lucy Stone / Henry Blackwell *  Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 *

Questions to Consider  To what extent did Reconstruction create a different life for African-Americans in the post-war South?  Many colleges and universities divide U.S. history courses into pre and post Reconstruction. Why do you believe Reconstruction is a “halfway” point for the history of America?  How did Reconstruction impact the women’s suffrage movement? In what ways did the emancipation of African- Americans create and prevent women from obtaining the right to vote?

If You’re Curious...  Loving Warriors: Selected Letters of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell, ed. by Leslie Wheeler  Generations of Captivity: A History of American Slaves by Ira Berlin (Excellent chapter on “Freedom Generation” of Reconstruction slaves.)