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    This document summarizes key aspects of Reconstruction from 1865-1877, including newfound freedoms for southern blacks such as self-ownership, family reunification, participation in churches and schools. However, southern whites felt their birthright and wealth were imperiled by emancipation. Northern Republicans pursued a middle approach of "free labor". Radical Reconstruction increased federal authority in the South and granted blacks the right to vote. The 15th Amendment expanded citizenship and federal power to protect rights, though excluded women. Black southerners engaged in political mobilization and formed local Republican organizations. Reconstruction brought achievements like public education but also shortcomings like persistent black poverty. Southern white opposition employed terror against blacks and Republicans, while northern commitment wavered

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    Chapter 15 Notes

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    This document summarizes key aspects of Reconstruction from 1865-1877, including newfound freedoms for southern blacks such as self-ownership, family reunification, participation in churches and schools. However, southern whites felt their birthright and wealth were imperiled by emancipation. Northern Republicans pursued a middle approach of "free labor". Radical Reconstruction increased federal authority in the South and granted blacks the right to vote. The 15th Amendment expanded citizenship and federal power to protect rights, though excluded women. Black southerners engaged in political mobilization and formed local Republican organizations. Reconstruction brought achievements like public education but also shortcomings like persistent black poverty. Southern white opposition employed terror against blacks and Republicans, while northern commitment wavered

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    Chapter 15: "What Is Freedom?

    ":
    Reconstruction, 1865-1877
    New for southern blacks
    Self-ownership
    Autonomous institutions
    Family
    Reuniting families separated under slavery
    Adopting separate gender roles
    Church
    Worship
    Social events
    Political meetings
    Schools
    Motivations
    Backgrounds of students and instructors
    Establishment of black colleges
    Political participation
    Right to vote
    Engagement in political events
    Land ownership
    For southern whites, an imperiled birthright
    Postwar demoralization
    Loss of life
    Destruction of property

    Draining of planters' wealth and privilege


    Psychic blow of emancipation
    Inability to accept/ Intolerance of black autonomy or equality
    For northern Republicans, "free labor"
    Middle approach between aspirations of freedpeople and
    planters
    Ambiguous role of federal government; Freedmen's Bureau
    Achievements in education and health care
    Betrayal of commitment to land reform

    2.

    3.
    4.

    5.

    6.
    1.
    2.
    3.

    2.

    Radical Reconstruction
    Reconstruction Act
    Placement of South under federal military authority
    Call for new state governments, entailing black right to vote
    Tenure of Office Act
    Impeachment of Johnson
    Charges
    Acquittal
    1868 presidential election
    Republican waving of "bloody shirt"
    Democratic race-baiting
    Ulysses S. Grant victory
    Fifteenth Amendment
    Significance of "Great Constitutional Revolution"
    Idea of national citizenry, equal before the law
    Expansion of citizenry to include blacks
    Empowerment of federal government to protect citizens'

    3.
    1.

    2.

    rights
    Exclusion of women
    Unfulfilled campaigns for women's emancipation
    Split within feminism over Reconstruction amendments
    Radical Reconstruction in the South
    Black initiatives
    Mass public gatherings
    Grassroots protests against segregation
    Labor strikes
    Political mobilization
    Forming of local Republican organizations
    Union League
    Voter registration
    Reconstructed state governments
    Composition
    Predominance of Republicans
    Black Republicans
    Officeholding at federal, state, and local levels
    Varied backgrounds
    White Republicans
    Carpetbaggers
    Scalawags
    Varied motivations of each
    Achievements
    Public education
    Affirmation of civil and political equality
    More equal allocation of public services and resources
    Measures to protect free labor

    Fairer system of justice


    Improvement in public facilities
    Shortcomings
    Uneven enforcement of laws
    Economic stagnation
    Persistence of black poverty

    3.

    4.

    Overthrow of Reconstruction
    Southern white opposition
    Grievances expressed
    Corruption
    Incompetence
    High taxes
    Black supremacy
    Underlying motivations
    Antipathy for racial equality
    Desire for controllable labor
    Use of terror
    Against any perceived threat to white supremacy
    Against Republicans, black and white
    Ku Klux Klan and other secret societies
    Northern response
    Measures to protect blacks' rights
    Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871
    Civil Rights Act of 1875
    Waning commitment to Reconstruction
    Liberal Republicans; Horace Greeley

    5.

    Resurgence of northern racism


    Economic depression
    Supreme Court decisions
    Slaughterhouse Cases
    U.S. v. Cruikshank
    Death throes of Reconstruction
    1874 Democratic gains in South; "Redeemers"
    Resurgence of terror
    Rise of electoral fraud
    Election of 1876 and Bargain of 1877

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