Reconstruction Traditional View of Reconstruction Carpetbaggers Scalawags Radical Republicans Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War Presidential Reconstruction (1863-1867) Black Codes Vagrancy, “apprenticeship” laws Memphis and New Orleans Riots Radical, or Congressional Reconstruction (1867-1877) Amendments: 13th (1865), 14th (1868), 15th (1870) 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 “If their whole country must be laid waste, and made a desert, in order to save this Union from destruction, so let it be. I would rather . . . Reduce them to a condition where their whole country is to be re-peopled by a band of freemen than to see them perpetuate the destruction of this people through our agency.” Thaddeus Stevens

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