HISTORY 2RR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carpetbagger, Equal Protection Clause, Reconstruction Acts
10 Feb 2015
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Part one: reconstruction and federal politics: stages of reconstruction, rehearsals: reconstruction during the war. General sherman and field order #15 i: thirteenth amendment. Forfeit property considered to be their own people. Sherman and talks between african american along coast line (sc) decided to expropriate land owned by former slave owners. Sweat equity people considered that they owned the land due to the labour that they put in. 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. Members of congress put through constitutional amendment for freeing slaves. States that wanted to get back into the union had to agree to the amendment ii. Congress created march 1865, oversee relationships between. Food rations, schools, negotiations and enforces labour contracts, some resp. for courts.
