Liberation: Promise and Failure of Reconstruction

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Liberation Promise and Failure of Reconstruction
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What end of slavery meant

• For slave-owners mixed reaction
• Shock, disbelief, trauma
• Acceptance
• For former slaves mixed reaction
• Elation, with insolence, open expression of
  disgust, rebellion
• Apprehension, fear of what freedom meant
• Denial, disbelief, refusal to accept they were
  free

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Post-Freedom Issues

• Basic necessities food, shelter
• Violence, brutalities
• Re-uniting families
• Land
• Education
• Economy contracts, sharecropping
• High politics national and state politics

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Freedmens Bureau

• Creation and objectives of the Bureau
• Problems of the Bureau
• Successes of the Bureau
• Failures of the Bureau
• Reasons for Failure

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Development of Black Institutions

• The Black Church
• Education black schools and colleges
• Segregation in schools

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Presidential Reconstruction

• President Andrew Johnson
• Pardon of former Confederates
• Pardon of former high Confederate officials
• Results of Presidential Reconstruction
• Black Codes
• Black Conventions

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Radical Republican Reconstruction

• Rise of militant Republicans
• Senate Charles Sumner, Benjamin Wade, Henry
  Wilson
• House Thaddeus Stevens, George W. Julian, James
  M. Ashley
• Initial opposition of moderate Republicans to
  radical plans
• Moderate and radical Republicans break with
  President Johnson
• Passing of Fourteenth Amendment

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Radical Republican Reconstruction Program
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