Reconstructin and New South Study Terms

Reconstruction:
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson/Impeachment
Radical Reconstruction
Thaddeus Stevens/Charles Sumner

The 13th Amendment: Abolition of “Unfree” Labor
The 14th Amendment: Citizenship and “Due Process”
The 15th Amendment: Voting rights


Causes for the end of Reconstruction
Panic of 1873
Grantism & federal corruption
Time and the passing of the “Radical” Republicans
Consistent and widespread violence across the South
(The Klan as an example)

Compromise of 1877 and the “official” end of Reconstruction
LA, SC, & FL “Unredeemed”
Rutherford B. Hayes/GOP
Samuel Tilden/Demos
Federal troops out of the South
Federal funds for infrastructure improvements in the South

Populists
Farmers Alliance

The New South “Creed”:
Reverence for the Southern Past but Look to the Future
“Moonlight and Magnolias
Boosterism, Northern Capital and the Industrialization of the South
Railroads, Mining, Lumber, and Textiles
Northern Colonialism & “Extractive Wealth”
Complete Rejoining of the South in the Union
Spanish American War as Example
Exclusively Southern Solution to Race Question
Southern “Experience” with Blacks and “Hands Off” to the North

Disfranchisement of Black Citizens
Rewriting of State Constitutions (MS was the 1st in 1890)
Poll Taxes
“Comprehension” or Literacy Tests
Grandfather Clauses

Jim Crow Laws—social, legal, political, economic, cultural, (physical, in some cases) separation
Segregation and Apartheid

Williams v. Mississippi—Exclusionary Tactics like Comprehension Clauses were Constitutional
Plessy v. Ferguson—“Separate but Equal” schools, facilities, etc. were Constitutional

Booker T. Washington
(Frederick Douglass’s “self help”)
Tuskegee Institute
Atlanta Compromise
Economic advancement over social & political equality
Vocational/Technical Education

W.E.B. Du Bois
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Harlem Renaissance/”Talented Tenth”