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CHAPTER 15

What Is Freedom? : Reconstruction 1865-1877 Key Words Freedmen’s Bureau Sharecropping Black Codes Fourteenth Amendment Fifteenth Amendment Ku Klux Klan Civil Rights Act of 1875

Chapter Study Outline I.

The Meanings of Freedom A.

For southern blacks, an expansive quest i. Self-ownership ii.

Autonomous institutions 1. Family 2. 3.

Church Schools

iii. Political participation iv. Land ownership B.

For southern whites, an imperiled birthright i. Masters without slaves

C. For northern Republicans, "free labor" vision D. Post-emancipation labor systems i. Task system (rice) ii. Wage labor (sugar) E. II.

iii. Sharecropping (cotton, tobacco) Subversion of independent white yeomanry

F. Aftermath of slavery Presidential Reconstruction A.

Andrew Johnson i. Approach to Reconstruction 1. 2.

B.

Pardons Reserving of political power to whites

Southern white response i. Restoration of Confederate leaders and Old South elite ii. Violence against freed people and northerners iii. Black Codes

C.

D.

Northern reaction i. Johnson satisfaction ii. Republican outrage Congressional Republicans vs. Johnson i. Passage of bill extending life of Freedmen's Bureau ii. Passage of Civil Rights Bill iii. Vetoes and override iv. Fourteenth Amendment

III.

Radical Reconstruction

A.

Reconstruction Act

B. C.

Tenure of Office Act Impeachment of Johnson i. Charges ii. Acquittal

D.

1868 presidential election i. Republican waving of "bloody shirt" ii. Democratic race-baiting iii. Ulysses S. Grant victory

IV.

E. Fifteenth Amendment Significance of "Great Constitutional Revolution" A. B.

Idea of national citizenry, equal before the law Expansion of citizenry to include blacks

C. Empowerment of federal government to protect citizens' rights D. New boundaries of American citizenship i. Exclusion of Asian immigrants ii. Exclusion of women V.

Radical Reconstruction in the South A. Black initiatives B. C.

Reconstructed state governments Shortcomings i. Uneven enforcement of laws ii. Economic stagnation

VI.

iii. Persistence of black poverty Overthrow of Reconstruction A. B.

Southern white opposition Reign of Terror i. Against any perceived threat to white supremacy ii. Against Republicans, black and white

C.

iii. Ku Klux Klan and other secret societies Northern response i.

Measures to protect blacks' rights 1. Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871

2.

Civil Rights Act of 1875...