Reconstruction:

• Traditional View of ReconstructionCarpetbaggersScalawagsRadical Republicans

• Presidential Reconstruction (1863-1867)• Radical, or Congressional Reconstruction (1867-1877)

Amendments: 13th (1865), 14th (1868), 15th (1870)Black CodesMemphis and New Orleans RiotsReconstruction Acts (1-4)“Bloody Shirt”Southern Republicans

• African Americans’ Participation in Politics• Redemption (1870-1880)

Liberal RepublicansKu Klux KlanMississippi PlanCompromise of 1877

Thomas Nast, Compromise with the South, 1864

Memphis Riot, 1866

The First Vote

Members of 1868 Louisiana Legislature

Harry Mosler, The Lost Cause, 1868

White Man’s Government (Democratic Party)

(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."

Anti-Freedman’s Bureau Propaganda

“In Self Defense,” 1876

Thomas Nast’s version of Reconstruction

“Our Uncle Going to Take a Rest,” 1877

Redemption