HISTORY 2RR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Memphis Riots Of 1866, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Reconstruction Acts
13 Jul 2015
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Part one: reconstruction and federal politics: stages of reconstruction, rehearsals: reconstruction during the war, general sherman and field order #10. 20 000 aa families were given confiscated farm lands from ex-owners. Turns over some mules origins of 40 acres and a mule. Motivations for sherman were to create a self-sustaining community: thirteenth amendment. Gets through congress january 1865, then ratified in december 1965. States wishing to rejoin union had to agree to abide by 13th ammendment. 13 th amendment to the constitution (adapted 1865) Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the united. States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction: freedman"s bureau. Institution to manage the relationship between freed people and planters (owners). Food rations, schools, negotiates and enforces labor contracts, some respect for courts. Could be helping hand and could be coercive depending on resources and on the local agent.
