HIST-1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reconstruction Era, Carpetbagger, Southern Democrats
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Ids: carpetbaggers, scalawags, radical republicans, andrew johnson, amnesty proclamation, presidential reconstruction, 13th amendment, black codes, civil rights act of 1866, 14th amendment, congressional reconstruction, samuel j. tilden vs r. b. Interested in equal political and civil rights: want land (land = status, want education, e. radical republicans. Republicans in north, dedicated to full equality for blacks (votes) feel like the south needs punishment: two major questions that must be answered after the war, 1. What would happen to the ex confederates (particularly the leaders: many leaders were tried for treason, should they be punished (death) or, 2. What should be the status of the freed men (blacks)? should they help rebuild the south: they were free but how free, 3 ways these questions are answered, 1. The parole agreements (surrender agreements) the surrender agreements were lenient: confederate armies held out to surrender (afraid of trials, 1.
