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Library of Congress
The lower half of the city of Charleston, South Carolina, the seedbed of secession, lay in
ruin when most of the white population evacuated on February 18, 1865. A bombardment
by Union batteries and gunboats around Charleston harbor had already destroyed many of
the lovely, neoclassical townhomes of the low-country planters. Then, as the city was
abandoned, fires broke out everywhere, ignited in bales of cotton left in huge stockpiles in
public squares. To many observers, the flames were the funeral pyres of a dying civilization.
Among the first Union troops to enter Charleston was the Twenty-first U.S. Colored
Regiment, which received the surrender of the city from its mayor. For black Charlestonians,
most of whom were former slaves, this was a time of celebration. In symbolic ceremonies,
they proclaimed their freedom and announced their rebirth. Whatever the postwar order
would bring, the freedpeople of Charleston converted Confederate ruin into a vision of
Reconstruction based on Union victory and black liberation.
Still, in Charleston as elsewhere, death demanded attention. During the final year of the
war, the Confederates had converted the planters’ Race Course, a horse-racing track, and
its famed Washington Jockey Club, into a prison. Union soldiers were kept in terrible
conditions in the interior of the track, without shelter. The who died there of exposure
and disease were buried in a mass grave behind the grandstand. After the fall of the city,
Charleston’s blacks organized to create a proper burial ground for the Union dead. During
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the inscription “Martyrs of the Race Course.”
And then they planned an extraordinary ceremony. On the morning of May 1, 1865, a
procession of ten thousand people marched around the planters’ Race Course, led by three
thousand children carrying armloads of roses and singing “John Brown’s Body.” The
children were followed by black women with baskets of flowers and wreaths, and then by
black men. The parade concluded with members of black and white Union regiments, along
with white missionaries and teachers led by James Redpath, the supervisor of freedmen’s
schools in the region. All wh ...
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Lincoln, War, and the Slaughter of the American Working Class
The American Civil War 1861-1865
The American Civil War is still, without doubt, the most traumatic experience in American History. Far more so than the American Revolution, the World Wars, and 9/11.
New estimates put the number of soldier deaths at 750,000 or above. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/civil-war-toll-up-by-20-percent-in-new-estimate.html
This does not include the many civilian deaths through disease, starvation, heartbreak, etc.
About 22 million lived in the North and 9 million in the South at the time of the war. There was about a 3.5 to 2.5 ratio of deaths North to South, but this means that the South lost a greater percentage of its population.
About 36,000 African American soldiers were killed.
In the following slides, we’ll recount the seminal events leading up to the war.
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We can go back to the very foundations of the United States when the Fugitive Slave Clause (Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3) and the 3/5th Clause (Article 1, Section 2. Par. 3) of the Constitution effectively legalized slavery without explicitly mentioning slavery.
Also, Amendment 10 “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” leaves the issue of slavery and other legal, commercial, and social matters up to the states.
Arguments and ill feelings regarding these issues began almost immediately, and tensions almost led to violence in 1820 when the Missouri Compromise staved off revolt and kept the balance between slave state and free state representation.
Texas independence from Mexico followed by its attempt to join the U.S. created tensions before and after the delayed admission in December of 1845, during the Polk Administration.
Polk’s (murderous?) manipulation of international politics led to massive gains in U.S. territory. He gave Mexico little chance to a avoid war that resulted in the loss of the that nations northern half, and he negotiated for the acquisition and consolidation of the Northwest, completing the U.S. march to the Pacific.
This created all kinds of problems for the slavery balance. The Wilmot Proviso, which might have solved the problem, though admittedly in the non-extentionist favor, was rejected. When California asked to join the Union as a free state, it engendered yet another crisis. Half of the state was below the Missouri Compromise line. There was a call in Congress to split California into one free and one slave state.
Then Clay (again) proposed a compromise that delayed secession, but may have ensured it at the same time.
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CHAPTER 8: RECONSTRUCTION, Opening and Closing , 1865-1900
Contents
Introduction and Pre-Reading Questions: 1
Documents: 5
Document 1, Harper’s Weekly comments on the Freedman’s Bureau, 1868 (Harper's Weekly, 1868) 5
Document 2, Former slaves reflect on their happiness with freedom and the Thirteenth Amendment (Library of Congress, 1936-1938) 7
Document 3, Mississippi Black Codes, 1865 (America Past and Present Online, 1865) 13
Document 4, Reflections on the Lincoln Assassination (The New York Times, 1865) 15
Document 5, President Andrew Johnson orders the return of Field Order 15 land (Engine of Souls Forum, 1865) 18
Document 6, The 14th and 15th Amendments (The Charters of Freedom, 1866 (r. 1868); 1869 (r. 1870)) 19
Document 7, The Arkansas Gazette on Black Male Suffrage, 1890 (Perman, 2001) 20
Document 8, 1868 Ku Klux Klan Charter (albany.edu, 1868) 21
Post-Reading Exercises: 22
Works Cited 22
Introduction and Pre-Reading Questions: As you know, the North won the Civil War in 1865 under the presidential leadership of Abraham Lincoln. Well, Lincoln had his work cut out for him as president during this war, and, in particular, he had his work cut out for him in terms of figuring out what to do with the South once the war was over. It became clear by 1864, well before the Confederacy surrendered, that the Union was going to win the war. Looking back, it seems that perhaps Lincoln shouldn’t have let the war go on so much longer, since it was obvious—really to both sides—who the eventual victor would be. Indeed, some have argued that Lincoln should have negotiated with the South to try and end the war sooner. But Lincoln would have argued that he could never have negotiated with the South—he insisted that since the Confederacy was a rebellious bunch, since they had no legal right to exist, he couldn’t negotiate with them.
So Lincoln instead had to focus on what to do with the South once the war really did end. Lincoln did know one thing for sure—he knew he couldn’t just readmit the South and pretend that nothing had happened. Too much blood had been shed for that and he also didn’t want anyone to think that when they didn’t like a governmental policy, they could just secede from the Union with no consequences. This much was clear to Lincoln early on, but aside from this, he wasn’t too sure on how to proceed with the reunification or the reconstruction of the nation.
By the time the war did finally end in 1865, the South was in tatters, with homes and buildings destroyed, railroads and bridges completely gone, fields untended. The Emancipation Proclamation had stripped many Southerners of their slaves and many acutely felt new economic burdens, particularly because so many fathers and sons had been killed in the war. For these white Southerners, they hoped that the period of Reconstruction—the period of reunifying the nation—would consist of the federal government stepping out of southern affairs and they hoped to see African ...
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Covers the outcome of the Homestead Strike, the rise of Eugene V. Debs, the Pullman Strike, the articulation of the Frontier Thesis, and the dispute over the annexation of Hawaii.
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Covers the Grant Administration's problematic response to Native American affairs, focusing on the discovery of the Comstock Lode, the establishment of the transcontinental railroad, the Texas-Indian Wars, the gold rush in South Dakota, the Black Hills War, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Covers the rise of nativism during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, focusing on the actions of Tammany Hall, the Know Nothing Party, and the Ku Klux Klan.
Covers the events that occurred in the aftermath of the American Civil War, including the readmission of former Confederate States to the Union, the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Black Codes, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the debates over the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
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Covers the third year of the American Civil War, focusing on the consequences of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Vicksburg Campaign, the Battle of Chancellorsville, the Battle of Gettysburg, the New York Draft Riots, the Battle of Chickamauga, and the Gettysburg Address.
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42 Reconstruction Begins
1. A SURVEY OF
AMERICAN HISTORY
Unit 3: Reconstruction and Urbanization
Part 2: Reconstruction Begins
2. THADDEUS STEVENS
• House Representative from
Pennsylvania and leader of the
Radical Republicans.
• Instrumental in securing the
passage of the Thirteenth
Amendment in 1865.
• Radical abolitionist who
believed in nothing less than
absolute equality before the law
between African Americans and
white Americans.
• Drafted the Reconstruction
Acts of 1867 and 1868 and
guided them through Congress.
3. WHAT WAS
RECONSTRUCTION?
‘Reconstruction’ refers to both the
physical rebuilding of Southern
infrastructure after the destruction
of the Civil War and the moral
reform of Southern society to
advance a culture of racial equality.
4. WHAT WAS
RECONSTRUCTION?
Technically, the Reconstruction Era
is the period between the end of
the Civil War in 1865 and the
Compromise of 1877. However, the
Reconstruction Era did not come
into full force until the passage of
the Reconstruction Acts of 1867.
5. THE RECONSTRUCTION
ACTS OF 1867 AND 1868
• Drafted and passed during the
time in which the Congress
refused to seat representatives
from states that had not ratified
the Fourteenth Amendment.
• These states included all of the
former Confederate States
except for Tennessee, which
had ratified the amendment.
• Divided these states into five
military districts, each of which
would be commanded by a
general who would establish a
provisional district government.
6. THE RECONSTRUCTION
ACTS OF 1867 AND 1868
• Required each state to draft a
new state constitution and have
this constitution approved by
the Congress before allowing
Congressional representation.
• Allowed African American men
to vote for and be elected as
Congressional representatives,
and made former Confederate
officials ineligible for election.
• Vetoed by Andrew Johnson,
but passed again by the
Congress in several overrides
of the Presidential veto.
7. THE RECONSTRUCTION
ACTS OF 1867 AND 1868
• Essentially resulted in the
military occupation of the South
by federal troops, as if the
South was a foreign nation that
had recently been conquered.
• Southerners who supported
Reconstruction in their states
were known as ‘scalawags.’
• Northerners who moved to the
South to exploit the new
political and economic
opportunities that arose there
were known as ‘carpetbaggers.’
8. JOHNSON’S IMPEACHMENT
Andrew Johnson’s
Secretary of War,
Edwin Stanton, and the
Commanding General
of the United States
Army, Ulysses S. Grant,
worked to enforce the
Reconstruction Acts in
the South. This put the
two of them at odds
with Johnson.
After Johnson publicly
suggested that he
would dismiss Stanton,
the Congress quickly
passed the Tenure of
Office Act to prohibit
him from doing this.
Johnson nevertheless
replaced Stanton with
Grant and came into
conflict with Congress.
9. GRANT BECOMES
THE PRESIDENT
• In March 1868, the House of
Representatives subjected
Johnson to an impeachment
trial, attempting to remove him
for his intentional violation of
the Tenure of Office Act.
• The trial lasted almost three
months. Ultimately, the House
voted to impeach Johnson but
the Senate fell one vote short of
impeaching him.
• The impeachment process
secured Johnson’s defeat in the
Presidential election of 1868.
10. GRANT BECOMES
THE PRESIDENT
• Ulysses S. Grant won the
election as the Republican
candidate for the Presidency.
• Grant’s victory was narrow, with
a margin of only 300,000 votes.
• Since his winning total included
500,000 African American
votes, his victory proved that
the Republicans could maintain
power by extending rights to
African Americans.
• Grant won election by using a
strategy now known as ‘waving
the bloody shirt.’
11. THE KU KLUX KLAN
In 1865, in response
to the outcome of the
Civil War, the Ku Klux
Klan was founded. It
appeared first in
Pennsylvania, then
spread into the South.
Between 1865 and
1869, its members
violently opposed
Reconstruction.
The Klan used lynching
to kill and intimidate
innocent African
Americans with recently
expanded rights. But it
also targeted white
supporters of
Reconstruction,
particularly those in the
South: carpetbaggers
and scalawags.
12. WAVING THE BLOODY SHIRT
• The phrase ‘waving the bloody shirt’ dates to 1871, when Benjamin Franklin
Butler gave a speech denouncing the KKK to the House of Representatives.
• Butler spoke of an incident in which carpetbaggers had been attacked by the
Ku Klux Klan, and subsequent urban legends suggested that he held up the
bloody shirt of one of the victims and waved it around.
• The phrase now refers to an effort to win sympathy for a cause by exploiting
memories of those who were injured or killed by fighting for the same cause.
13. WAVING THE BLOODY SHIRT
• In the election of 1869, Grant ‘waved the bloody shirt’ by repeatedly
reminding voters of all the sacrifices that the North had made in the Civil War,
and by pointing out all the ways in which the South refused to accept defeat.
• When he came to office, Southern recidivism was one of the main issues he
had to handle, particularly in the form of the KKK and its aggressive nativism.
• In other words, although the literal battles of the Civil War were over, the
battles over attitudes and beliefs were only just beginning...
14. A SURVEY OF
AMERICAN HISTORY
Unit 3: Reconstruction and Urbanization
Part 2: Reconstruction Begins