Reconstruction

  

Reconstruction

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Digital History textbook:

Reconstruction, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=8&smtid=2

In preparation for the midterm exam, be able to describe (what is it and when was it?) and analyze (what is its wider significance to the history of the United States?): 

The Birth of a Nation; emancipation; sharecropping; The Freedmen's Bureau; Congressional Reconstruction; Andrew Johnson; carpetbaggers; Redemption; The Panic of 1873; The Presidential election of 1876

Select significant passages from at least three of the following primary sources for your Primary Source Annotation:

Amendments XIII (1865), XIV (1868), and XV (1870) to the U.S. Constitution, U.S. National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/amendments-11-27

Documents related to Reconstruction, https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart5b.html

Documents related to Freed-people, https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/freedmen.html

Alabama Civil War and Reconstruction newspapers, http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/landingpage/collection/cwnp

[Albion Winegar Tourgée,]  A Fool's Errand.  By One of the Fools (1879), https://docsouth.unc.edu/church/tourgee/tourgee.html

Post Primary Source Annotation and Comments on at least five other students' annotations