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Images of Reconstruction

Images of Reconstruction. The Historiography of Reconstruction. Focus Question. In your opinion, why can bias be dangerous?. Two Images of Reconstruction. Two Images of Reconstruction. Two Images of Reconstruction. Dunning School. Developed by Burgess and Dunning at Columbia in the 1900s

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Images of Reconstruction

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  1. Images of Reconstruction The Historiography of Reconstruction

  2. Focus Question • In your opinion, why can bias be dangerous?

  3. Two Images of Reconstruction

  4. Two Images of Reconstruction

  5. Two Images of Reconstruction

  6. Dunning School • Developed by Burgess and Dunning at Columbia in the 1900s • Entrenchment of Jim Crow • Height of lynchings • Sympathetic to the South • Reconstruction was ruinous • Radical Republics villains in society • Black legislators unprepared for government • Northern exploitation of the South

  7. Progressive School • Develops in the 1920s and 1930s • Economics drives all historical and social events • Reconstruction a period of economic exploitation • Carpetbaggers took advantage of the South • Exploited cheap labor of freedmen • Exploited the resources of a destitute and desparate South • Civil Rights push solely to cement Republican control over the region

  8. Revisionist School • Developed by Eric Foner in the 1980s • Impacted by efforts of the modern Civil Rights Movement • Sympathetic to Reconstruction governments • Reconstruction a noble and radical movement • Quest to forge an interracial democracy • Push for expanded voting rights • Push for educational opportunities • Transformative, long-term view of Reconstruction

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