Reconstruction
Let peace and prosperity be restored to the land. May God
bless this people: may God save the Constitution.
- Andrew Johnson in the U.S. Senate
March 22, 1875
Reading Assignment:
Henretta: Chapter Fifteen
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Reviewing the Text: One, Two, and Three |
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Reading Historical Documents One and Two |
Primary Sources
| Abraham Lincoln - Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863) | Continental Monthly - "Reconstruction" - December 6, 1863 |
| Abraham Lincoln Proclamation on Reconstruction (1864) | Abraham Lincoln - Last Speech: April 11, 1865 |
| Abraham Lincoln - Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill | Abraham Lincoln - Second Inaugural Address |
| The Wade-Davis Manifesto | Thaddeus Stevens - Speech December 18, 1865 |
| Mary Prentiss - A Republican View of Andrew Johnson | Salmon P. Chase - Letter to Abraham Lincoln on Reconstruction |
| "Sad News! The President Assassinated!" | White House Funeral Sermon for President Lincoln |
| Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction - June 20, 1866 | "Reconstruction" - Peter Cooper to President Andrew Johnson |
| Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution | Andrew Johnson - Amnesty Proclamation |
| Freedman's Bureau Bill | Black Codes of Louisiana |
| Black Codes of Mississippi | The Civil Rights Act of 1866 |
| Special Field Orders No. 15 - "Forty Acres and a Mule" | Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan - 1868 |
| Carl Shurz - Report on Conditions in the South | Circular to the Friends of Jefferson Davis |
| Ex Parte Milligan | Cartoon - Reconstruction and How it Works |
| Cartoon - Andrew Johnson as Samson | Harper's Weekly - "Reconstruction and Obstruction |
| Harper's Editorial - "A Desperate Man" | Harper's - The Stanton Imbroglio |
| Cartoon - Romeo (Seward) and Mercutio (Johnson) | Cartoon - Effect on the Vote of the Eleventh Article (Andrew Johnson Impeachment |
| Cartoon - Johnson Kicking the Freedman's Bureau | Cartoon - "Columbia: Shall I trust these men and not this man?" |
| Cartoon - "King Andy" | Cartoon- "Andy Makes a Call on Uncle Sam |
| Ampitheatrum Johnsonianum | Cartoon - "The Little Boy Would Persist" |
| Cartoon - "The Political Death of the Bogus Caesar" | Cartoon - "A.J. Returns to his First Love." |
| Editorial - "Mr. Sumner's Civil Rights Bill | Editorial: Making Treason Odious |
| Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End. | "Reconstruction" - Article by Frederick Douglass |
| Atlantic Monthly - "Three Months among the Reconstructionists |
| Harper's Editorial = "The Trials of the Government | Frederick Douglass - "Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage |
| Ulysses S. Grant - First Inaugural Address | Ulysses S. Grant - Second Inaugural Address |
| Second Reconstruction Act | Tenure of Office Act |
| Thaddeus Stevens in Support of Black Suffrage | Third Reconstruction Act |
| Articles of Impeachment, Andrew Johnson | Sketch - Impeachment of Andrew Johnson |
| Admission Ticket to Impeachment Trial | Thaddeus Stevens - Closing Arguments in Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson |
| New York Times - Impeachment Verdict | Fourth Reconstruction Act |
| Daniel Ullman - "On the Regeneration of the South | Sarah Ann Pringle - Treatment of the South by the Federal Government |
| C.S. Bradley - The Yankee Element of Designing Politicians | Jeannie Isabel Coleman - Throwing off the Yoke of Carpetbag Government |
| The Goodings Describe Reconstruction in South Carolina | George Ogden Recalls Reconstruction in the South |
| Senators Debate Equal Rights | Horace Greeley to Josephine Griffing (Describes Racial Stereotypes) |
| Letter from Judge Tourgee to Sen. Abbott re: the Ku Klux Klan | The Slaughterhouse Cases |
| Frederick Douglas - Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln | Rutherford B. Hayes - Inaugural Address |
| Ex Parte Virginia | Hayes - Wheeler Campaign Poster |
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