Sinha on Reconstruction
“My goal is to put Reconstruction in a broad transnational context, and to thereby demonstrate that its long death has as much to tell us as its short-lived triumph.” –Manisha Sinha, Second American Republic, p. xix
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Anti-Freedmen’s Bureau political cartoon (1866):
Black Senators and Congressmen, circa 1872
Second Founding timeline
- 1865 // Thirteenth Amendment (Approved January – Ratified December)
- 1866 // Congress approves Fourteenth Amendment
- 1866 // Midterm elections and Johnson’s “Swing Around the Circle”
- 1867 // Reconstruction Acts
- 1868 // Johnson survives Senate impeachment trial by one vote (Sen. Edmund Ross, R-KS)
- 1868 // States ratify Fourteenth Amendment
- 1868 // Grant wins presidential election
- 1869 // Lame Duck Congress approves Fifteenth Amendment
- 1870 // States ratify Fifteenth Amendment