An Unfinished Revolution?
The Legacy of Reconstruction
To consider in order to help answer this question: Is it simply the negation of slavery? What comes with it? What is being abolished exactly? How much do you have to abolish to truly get rid of slavery/ achieve freedom? Answer for these three groups: freedmen, victorious north, white south What exactly is freedom?
Freedmen:
Victorious North:
White South
For each group (Freedmen, Victorious North and White South) sum up what they wanted from Reconstruction in 1- 3 words CHEW ON THIS INFO.
Freedman’s Bureau
“Wrong man, wrong values, at the wrong time” - Frederick Douglass Andrew Johnson
Presidential Reconstruction
Make a prediction about what the Emboldened South may choose to do next. PREDICTION…
Black Codes: A recreation of slavery if not in name then in fact.