Norton Lecture Slides by Eric Foner Give Me Liberty! AN AMERICAN HISTORY FOURTH EDITION
Dec 14, 2015
Norton Lecture Slides
by
Eric Foner
Give Me Liberty! AN AMERICAN HISTORY
FOURTH EDITION
Chapter 15"What Is Freedom?":
Reconstruction, 1865–1877
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyThe Shackle Broken—by the Genius of Freedom.
Lecture Preview
• The Meaning of Freedom• The Making of Radical Reconstruction• Radical Reconstruction in the South• The Overthrow of Reconstruction
The Meaning of Freedom
Focus Question:
What visions of freedom did the former slaves and slaveholders pursue in the postwar South?
The Meaning of Freedom: After Slavery
• Blacks and the Meaning of Freedom
The Meaning of Freedom: Black Institutions
• Families in Freedom• Church and School
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Family Record, a lithograph marketed to formerslaves after the Civil War
The Meaning of Freedom: Political and social
• Political Freedom• Land, Labor, and Freedom
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyFive Generations of a Black Family
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyMother and Daughter Reading, Mt. Meigs
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 15.1 The Barrow Plantation
The Meaning of Freedom: Labor
• Masters without Slaves• The Free Labor Vision
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyThe First African Church, Richmond
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyWinslow Homer’s 1876 painting
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The Great Labor Question from a SouthernPoint of View
The Meaning of Freedom: Land
• The Freedmen’s Bureau• The Failure of Land Reform
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The Freedmen’s Bureau, an engraving fromHarper’s Weekly
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A black family in the cotton fields after the Civil War,photographed in 1867
The Meaning of Freedom: New Labor System
• Toward a New South• The White Farmer
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 15.2 Sharecropping in the South, 1880
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyA Nursemaid and Her Charge
The Meaning of Freedom: The South after slavery
• The Urban South• Aftermaths of Slavery
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyThe Cotton Depot at Guthrie, Texas
The Making of Radical Reconstruction
Focus Question:
What were the sources, goals, and competing visions for Reconstruction?
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Chinese laborers at work on a Louisianaplantation during Reconstruction
The Making of Radical Reconstruction: Johnson
• Andrew Johnson• The Failure of Presidential
Reconstruction
The Making of Radical Reconstruction:
Opposition to Johnson• The Black Codes• The Radical Republicans
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Selling a Freeman to Pay His Fine atMonticello, Florida
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyThaddeus Stevens
The Making of Radical Reconstruction: Civil
Rights• The Origins of Civil Rights
The Making of Radical Reconstruction: Legal
equality• The Fourteenth Amendment
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyPresident Andrew Johnson,
in an 1868 political cartoon
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A Democratic Party broadside from the electionof 1866 in Pennsylvania
The Making of Radical Reconstruction: Politics
• The Reconstruction Act• Impeachment and the Election of Grant
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A Democratic Party ribbon from the electionof 1866 in Pennsylvania
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 15.3 The Presidential Election of 1868
The Making of Radical Reconstruction:
Constitution• The Fifteenth Amendment• The “Great Constitutional Revolution”
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyThe Fifteenth Amendment, an 1870 lithograph
The Making of Radical Reconstruction: Women
• Boundaries of Freedom• The Rights of Women• Feminists and Radicals
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Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner, an engraving by ThomasNast from Harper’s Weekly
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A Delegation of Advocates of Woman SuffrageAddressing the House
Radical Reconstruction in the South
Focus Question:
What were the social and political effects of Radical Reconstruction in the South?
Radical Reconstruction in the South: Black Political
activity• “The Tocsin of Freedom”• The Black Officeholder
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Electioneering at the South, an engraving fromHarper’s Weekly
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyThe First Vote, an engraving from Harper’s Weekly
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyBlack and white members of the Mississippi Senate
Radical Reconstruction in the South: Economics
• Carpetbaggers and Scalawags• Southern Republicans in Power• The Quest for Prosperity
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyA Portrait of Hiram Revels
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyEmancipation
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A Group of Black Students and their Teacher
The Overthrow of Reconstruction
Focus Question:
What were the main factors, in both the North and the South, for the abandonment of Reconstruction?
The Overthrow of Reconstruction:
Opposition• Reconstruction’s Opponents• “A Reign of Terror”
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyA Cartoon from Around 1870
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyA Prospective Scene in the City of Oaks
The Overthrow of Reconstruction: Northern
critics• The Liberal Republicans• The North’s Retreat
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A Mississippi Member of the Ku Klux Klan
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyThe Old Plantation Home
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Changes in graphic artist Thomas Nast’s depictionof blacks in Harper’s Weekly
The Overthrow of Reconstruction: Election
of 1876• The Triumph of the Redeemers• The Disputed Election and Bargain
of 1877
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 15.4 Reconstruction in the South, 1867–1877
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 15.5 The Presidential Election of 1876
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyOf Course He Wants to Vote the Democratic Ticket
The Overthrow of Reconstruction:
Aftermath• The End of Reconstruction
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th EditionCopyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyIs This a Republican Form of Government?
Review
The Meaning of FreedomFocus Question: What visions of freedom did the former slaves and slaveholders pursue in the postwar South?
The Making of Radical ReconstructionFocus Question: What were the sources, goals, and competing visions for Reconstruction?
Radical Reconstruction in the SouthFocus Question: What were the social and political effects of Radical Reconstruction in the South?
The Overthrow of ReconstructionFocus Question: What were the main factors, in both the North and the South, for the abandonment of Reconstruction?
MEDIA LINKS—— Chapter 15 ——
Title Media link
Eric Foner on the aftermath of slavery
http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4/&f=foner_liberty09
Eric Foner on the lives of freedmen http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4/mp4/&f=question081
Eric Foner on the Reconstruction amendments
http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4/mp4/&f=question082
Eric Foner on the successes and failures of Reconstruction
http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4/mp4/&f=question083
Eric Foner on Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights Bill
http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4/mp4/&f=question084
Eric Foner on the 14th Amendment http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4/mp4/&f=question085
Eric Foner on the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4/&f=reconstruction_amendments
Next Lecture PREVIEW:—— Chapter 16 ——
America's Gilded Age, 1870–1890
• The Second Industrial Revolution• The Transformation of the West• Politics in a Gilded Age• Freedom in the Gilded Age• Labor and the Republic
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Give Me Liberty! AN AMERICAN HISTORY
FOURTH EDITION