1. Reconstruction Traditional View of Reconstruction Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Radical Republicans
Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
Presidential Reconstruction ( )
Black Codes
Vagrancy, “apprenticeship” laws
Memphis and New Orleans Riots
Radical, or Congressional Reconstruction ( )
Amendments: 13th (1865), 14th (1868), 15th (1870) Reconstruction Acts (1-4)
“Bloody Shirt”
Southern Republicans
African Americans’ Participation in Politics
Redemption ( )
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

2. Thomas Nast, Compromise with the South, 1864

3. Memphis Riot, 1866

4. The First Vote

5. Members of 1868 Louisiana Legislature

6. Harry Mosler, The Lost Cause, 1868

7. White Man’s Government (Democratic Party)

8. (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."

9. Anti-Freedman’s Bureau Propaganda

10. “In Self Defense,” 1876

11. Thomas Nast’s version of Reconstruction

12. “Our Uncle Going to Take a Rest,” 1877

13. Redemption