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Readings Handout #10
Dr. Rezelman

 

Reconstruction, 1865-1877
 
  1. Post-War Chaos
    1. main readings
      1. American History: "Reconstruction"  (1 page)
      2. Encyclopedia of the American Constitution: "Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction (1863)"  (1 page)
      3. Avalon Project: "Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln"  (2 pages)
        1. (the last paragraph is the most famous part)
    2. suggested readings
      1. EBO: "Reconstruction"  (2 pages)
      2. EBO: "Lincoln, Abraham: Life: Postwar Policy"  (2 pages)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. Encyclopedia of the American Constitution: "Wade-Davis Bill (July 2, 1864)"  (1 page)
      2. DAH: "Reconstruction"  (6 pages)
         
  2. Freedmen
    1. main readings
      1. DAH: "Contraband, Slaves as"  (1 page)
      2. American History: "Freedmen's Bureau"  (2 pages)
      3. DAH: "Freedmen's Bureau"  (1 page)
    2. suggested readings
      1. American History: "Oliver O. Howard"  (2 pages)
      2. EBO: "Howard, Oliver O."  (1 page)
      3. ANB: "Howard, Oliver Otis"  (4 pages)
      4. American History: "Sharecropping"  (1 paragraph)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. DAH: "Education, African American"  (2 pages)
      2. DAH: "African Americans"  (first 2 pages of section on "Emancipation and the Illusion of Freedom")
         
  3. White Resistance
    1. main readings
      1. EBO: "Carpetbagger"  (1 paragraph)
      2. American History: "Carpetbagger"  (1 paragraph)
        bulletlook at the cartoon! 
      3. EBO: "Scalawag"  (3 little paragraphs)
      4. EBO: "Black Code"  (1 page)
      5. EBO: "New Orleans Race Riot"  (1 paragraph)
      6. EBO: "Ku Klux Klan"  (2 pages)
      7. DAH: "Lynching"  (2 pages)
    2. suggested readings
      1. DAH: "Ku Klux Klan"  (first page)
      2. ANB: "Gordon, John Brown"  (2 pages)
         
  4. The Politics of Reconstruction
    1. main readings
      1. American History: "Andrew Johnson"  (3 pages)
      2. American History: "Radical Republicans"  (2 pages)
      3. American History: "Thaddeus Stevens"  (2 pages)
      4. American History: "Charles Sumner"  (2 pages)
      5. EBO: "Force Acts"  (half a page)
      6. EBO: "Johnson, Andrew: Impeachment"  (2 pages)
    2. suggested readings
      1. EBO: "Johnson, Andrew: The Presidency"  (2 pages)
      2. ANB: "Johnson, Andrew"  (6 pages)
      3. DAH: "Radical Republicans"  (1 page)
      4. EBO: "Radical Republican"  (2 pages)
      5. EBO: "Sumner, Charles"  (2 pages)
      6. EBO: "Stevens, Thaddeus"  (2 pages)
      7. Encyclopedia of the American Constitution: "Fourteenth Amendment (Framing)"  (4 pages)
      8. DAH: "Congress Debates the Fourteenth Amendment (1866)"  (8 pages)
      9. EBO: "Tenure of Office Act"  (half a page)
      10. DAH: "Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson"  (4 pages)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. ANB: "Stevens, Thaddeus"  (5 pages)
      2. ANB: "Sumner, Charles"  (4 pages)
      3. Encyclopedia of the American Constitution: "Fourteenth Amendment as a New Constitution"  (2 pages)
      4. Encyclopedia of the American Constitution: "Fifteenth Amendment (Framing and Ratification)"  (2 pages)
         
  5. The Republican South
    1. main readings
      1. ANB: "Delany, Martin Robison"  (2 pages)
      2. ANB: "Randolph, Benjamin Franklin"  (2 pages)
      3. ANB: "Revels, Hiram Rhoades"  (3 pages)
    2. suggested readings
      1. ANB: "Bruce, Blanche Kelso"  (2 pages)
      2. ANB: "Cain, Richard Harvey"  (2 pages)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. ANB: "Rainey, Joseph Hayne"  (2 pages)
 
  1. The Grant Administration
    1. main readings
      1. EBO: "Grant, Ulysses S.: Grant's Presidency"  (2 pages)
      2. American History: "Election of 1876"  (1 page)
      3. EBO: "Electoral Commission"  (2 pages)
    2. suggested readings
      1. ANB: "Grant, Ulysses S."  (sections on "First Term as President" and "Reelection in 1872"; 2 pages in all)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. EBO: "Crédit Mobilier Scandal"  (1 page)
      2. EBO: "Whiskey Ring"  (1 paragraph)
         

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