{"id":1495,"date":"2016-02-14T21:48:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T21:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2016-02-14T22:05:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T22:05:55","slug":"southern-reconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/2016\/02\/14\/southern-reconstruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Reconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Political life in the South during Reconstruction kept changing\u00a0at a rapid pace. \u00a0In his book,\u00a0A Short History of Reconstruction,\u00a0<\/em>Eric Foner charts a remarkably complicated set of factors that elevated some groups\u00a0over others at different times across various states during the period between 1865 and 1877. \u00a0 Once Congress wrested\u00a0control of the political restoration process away from President Johnson in 1866 and 1867, the result was a brief revolutionary heyday for black political leadership. \u00a0Yet there was always violent resistance lurking in southern communities determined to stop\u00a0participation in government by the ex-slaves. The fight culminated with the battle to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment and suppress\u00a0the rise of the Ku Klux Klan across the South. \u00a0This was a challenge that even a more conservative figures in the Republican Party seemed to embrace –at least at first. \u00a0President Grant led the fight to crush Klan-inspired political violence –a determination that surprised some contemporaries who had voted for Grant under the slogan, “Let Us Have Peace.” \u00a0 Yet, even though the post-war Klan was crushed by federal action in the early 1870s, the extent of\u00a0white support for black politics\u00a0seemed to collapse as the 1870s drew to a close. \u00a0Consider some of the following images and see if you can explain any or all of them\u00a0t can be used to help illustrate important points about American political and economic life in the South during the 1870s.<\/p>\n

Word Cloud inspired by\u00a0Foner’s Short History<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Reconstruction<\/a><\/p>\n

Black Senators and Congressmen, circa 1872<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Black<\/a><\/p>\n

Anti-Freedmen’s Bureau political cartoon (1866):<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Freedmen's<\/a><\/p>\n

Map of the Barrow Plantation, during and after slavery:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Barrow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Political life in the South during Reconstruction kept changing\u00a0at a rapid pace. \u00a0In his book,\u00a0A Short History of Reconstruction,\u00a0Eric Foner charts a remarkably complicated set of factors that elevated some groups\u00a0over others at different times across various states during the period between 1865 and 1877. \u00a0 Once Congress wrested\u00a0control of the political restoration process away […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1870s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}