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Setting the Stage (1863-1867)

Setting the Stage (1863-1867). John Sacher John.sacher@ucf.edu. Key Questions. What should happen to Confederate states and to ex-Confederates? What should happen to the former slaves?. Reconstruction. Former Slaves. Sherman’s Special Field Order #15. Southern Democrats.

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Setting the Stage (1863-1867)

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  1. Setting the Stage (1863-1867) John Sacher John.sacher@ucf.edu

  2. Key Questions • What should happen to Confederate states and to ex-Confederates? • What should happen to the former slaves?

  3. Reconstruction

  4. Former Slaves

  5. Sherman’s Special Field Order #15

  6. Southern Democrats

  7. 13th Amendment • Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

  8. Grand Review of the Union Army, May 1865

  9. Waving the Bloody Shirt “Soldiers, every scar you have on your heroic bodies was given you by a Democrat. Every scar, every arm that is lacking, every limb that is gone, is a souvenir of a Democrat. I want you to recollect it . . .”

  10. Abraham Lincoln • Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction—The 10 Percent Plan

  11. A New President Andrew Johnson

  12. Andrew Johnson’s Pardons

  13. Freedmen’s Bureau “I fear you have Hercules task.”

  14. Opposition to the Freedmen’s Bureau

  15. Black Codes

  16. Memphis Riot, May 1-2, 1866

  17. New Orleans Riot 1866 “The more information I obtain . . . the more revolting it becomes. It was no riot; it was an absolute massacre by the police which was not excelled in murderous cruelty by that of Fort Pillow.” Sheridan to Grant

  18. Swing Around the Circle

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