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Assignment #13

Primary Andrew Johnson proclaims amnesty 1865

Primary Freedman's Bureau Bill 1865

Primary Mississippi Black Code of 1865

Primary Second Reconstruction Act, March 1867

Primary Andrew Johnson impeachment 1868

Primary A sharecropping contract 1882

Primary Booker T Washington's Atlanta Compromise 1895

 Primary W.E.B. du Bois on Booker T Washington 1903

 

Web 2nd: Reconstruction Era Documents

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I.  Death

A.     Disease

B.     Battlefield technologies and strategies

C.     Impact of the war

 

II.  Presidential Reconstruction

A.     Reconstruction Politics

B.     Lincoln’s plan & 13th Amendment (Dec. 1865)

C.     Johnson’s policies

D.     White southern defiance

E.      14th Amendment (July 1868)

 

III.  Congressional Reconstruction

A.     Land issue

B.     Impeachment (Feb. 1868)

C.     Grant elected (1868)

D.     15th Amendment (March 1870)

Ticket to the impeachment of President Johnson

KNOWN CIVIL WAR CASUALTIES (both armies)*

Killed and wounded mortally in combat

205,904

Died of disease

337,388

Died in prison

56,192

Miscellaneous deaths

24,881

TOTAL DEATHS

624, 365

Wounded, not mortally

472,401

TOTAL CASUALTIES

1,096,766

* Confederate Records are incomplete

 

13th Amendment (1865): “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime . . . shall exist within the United States.”

 

14th Amendment (1868): “All persons born or naturalized in the United States . . . are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

 

15th Amendment (1870): “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

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