HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: White League, Sharecropping, Sea Islands
10 Sep 2017
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Week 2 lecture 1 - compromises and betrayals. Readings: primary sources: 13th, 14th , and 15th amendments ( reconstruction amendments , eric foner and olivia mahoney, america"s reconstruction: people and politics after the civil. War [website: scott reynolds nelson, the real great depression chronicle of higher education (2008): 2pgs. Freedom: different people had very different ideas of what freedom meant, frederick douglass: an ex slave vs. planter samuel agnew (if they gain freedom doesn"t mean that they gain independence, o. o howard (comm. Refer to the timeline from lecture slides: wartime reconstruction. Government trying do things as the war is unfolding. Anger against southern aristocrats johnson wanted punishment of the south. But also extreme antipathy to black civil right. Johnson almost removed from power 1868 (lost popularity: radical (congressional) reconstruction, efforts at redemption, great compromise 1877. Citizenship and equality: new laws redefined a more inclusive version of citizenship.
