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Reconstruction. Traditional View of Reconstruction Carpetbaggers Scalawags Radical Republicans Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War Presidential Reconstruction (1863-1867) Black Codes Vagrancy, “apprenticeship” laws Memphis and New Orleans Riots
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Reconstruction Traditional View of Reconstruction Carpetbaggers Scalawags Radical Republicans Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War Presidential Reconstruction (1863-1867) Black Codes Vagrancy, “apprenticeship” laws Memphis and New Orleans Riots Radical, or Congressional Reconstruction (1867-1877) Amendments: 13th (1865), 14th (1868), 15th (1870) Reconstruction Acts (1-4) “Bloody Shirt” Southern Republicans African Americans’ Participation in Politics Redemption (1870-1880) Liberal Republicans Ku Klux Klan Mississippi Plan Compromise of 1877 “If their whole country must be laid waste, and made a desert, in order to save this Union from destruction, so let it be. I would rather . . . Reduce them to a condition where their whole country is to be re-peopled by a band of freemen than to see them perpetuate the destruction of this people through our agency.” Thaddeus Stevens
(The members call each other thieves, liars, rascals, and cowards.)Columbia. "You are Aping the lowest Whites. If you disgrace your Race in this way you had better take Back Seats."