The document discusses the period of Reconstruction after the Civil War, including the efforts of Radical Reconstruction to establish rights for freed slaves through institutions like the Freedman's Bureau and amendments to the Constitution, as well as the challenges to Reconstruction from corruption, Supreme Court rulings, and economic depression, ultimately leading to the Compromise of 1877 and the end of federal protection of civil rights in the South.

1. Lecture 17
Reconstruction

2. “With malice toward none, with charity
for all, with firmness in the right as God
gives us to see the right, let us strive on
to finish the work we are in, to bind up
the nation's wounds, to care for him who
shall have borne the battle and for his
widow and his orphan, to do all which
may achieve and cherish a just and
lasting peace among ourselves and with
all nations.” – Abraham Lincoln’s 2nd
Inaugural Address

3. “We hold it to be the duty of the government to inflict
condign punishment on the rebel belligerents, and so
weaken their hands that they can never again endanger the
Union… The whole fabric of southern society must be
changed.... How can republican institutions, free schools,
free churches, free social intercourse exist in a mingled
community of nabobs and serfs; of the owners of twenty
thousand acre manors with lordly palaces, and the
occupants of narrow huts inhabited by "low white trash?"...
The property of the rebels shall pay our national debt, and
indemnify freedmen and loyal sufferers.
- Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania,
1865

4. Congressional Reconstruction
Lecture 17
I. Radical
Reconstruction
a. Freedman’s
Bureau
b. 14th
Amendment
c. Reconstruction
Act of 1867
d. 15th
Amendment
e. Civil Rights Act
of 1875
II. Obstacles to
Reconstruction
III. End of
Reconstruction

5. Congressional Reconstruction
Lecture 17
I. Radical
Reconstruction
a. Freedman’s
Bureau
b. 14th
Amendment
c. Reconstruction
Act of 1867
d. 15th
Amendment
e. Civil Rights Act
of 1875
II. Challenges to
Reconstruction
III. End of
Reconstruction

6. Congressional Reconstruction
Lecture 17
I. Radical
Reconstruction
a. Freedman’s
Bureau
b. 14th
Amendment
c. Reconstruction
Act of 1867
d. 15th
Amendment
e. Civil Rights Act
of 1875
II. Challenges to
Reconstruction
III. End of
Reconstruction

7. Congressional Reconstruction
Lecture 17
I. Radical
Reconstruction
a. Freedman’s
Bureau
b. 14th
Amendment
c. Reconstruction
Act of 1867
d. 15th
Amendment
e. Civil Rights Act
of 1875
II. Challenges to
Reconstruction
III. End of
Reconstruction

8. Congressional Reconstruction
Lecture 17
I. Radical
Reconstruction
a. Freedman’s
Bureau
b. 14th
Amendment
c. Reconstruction
Act of 1867
d. 15th
Amendment
e. Civil Rights Act
of 1875
II. Challenges to
Reconstruction
III. End of
Reconstruction

9. Congressional Reconstruction
Lecture 17
I. Radical
Reconstruction
a. Freedman’s
Bureau
b. 14th
Amendment
c. Reconstruction
Act of 1867
d. 15th
Amendment
e. Civil Rights Act
of 1875
II. Challenges to
Reconstruction
III. End of
Reconstruction

10. Lecture 17
I. Radical
Reconstruction
II. Challenges to
Reconstruction
a. Corruption
b. Supreme Court
c. Depression
III. End of
Reconstruction

11. Lecture 17
I. Radical
Reconstruction
II. Challenges to
Reconstruction
a. Corruption
b. Supreme Court
c. Depression
III. End of
Reconstruction
“This is a country for white
men, and by God, as long as
I am president, it shall be a
government for white men”
- Andrew Johnson

12. Lecture 17
I. Radical
Reconstruction
II. Challenges to
Reconstruction
a. Corruption
b. Supreme Court
c. Depression
III. End of
Reconstruction

13. Lecture 17
I. Radical
Reconstruction
II. Challenges to
Reconstruction
a. Corruption
b. Supreme Court
c. Depression
III. End of
Reconstruction

14. Congressional Reconstruction
Lecture 17
I. Radical
Reconstruction
II. Challenges to
Reconstruction
III. End to
Reconstruction
a. Sharecropping
b. Bulldozing
c. Compromise of
1877

15. Congressional Reconstruction
Lecture 17
I. Radical
Reconstruction
II. Challenges to
Reconstruction
III. End to
Reconstruction
a. Sharecropping
b. Bulldozing
c. Compromise of
1877

16. Congressional Reconstruction
Lecture 17
I. Radical
Reconstruction
II. Challenges to
Reconstruction
III. End to
Reconstruction
a. Sharecropping
b. Bulldozing
c. Compromise of
1877
Number of Black Legislators

17. Congressional Reconstruction
Lecture 17
I. Radical
Reconstruction
II. Challenges to
Reconstruction
III. End to
Reconstruction
a. Sharecropping
b. Bulldozing
c. Compromise of
1877