What is Freedom: PowerPoint Lectures to Accompany Chapter 15 of Give Me Liberty By Eric Foner

Chapter 15"What Is Freedom?":

Reconstruction, 1865–1877

The Meaning of Freedom

• Blacks and the Meaning of Freedom


• Families in Freedom• Church and School


• Political Freedom

• Land, Labor, and Freedom

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 15.1 The Barrow Plantation


• Masters without Slaves• The Free Labor Vision


• The Freedmen’s Bureau• The Failure of Land Reform


• Toward a New South• The White Farmer

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 15.2 Sharecropping in the South, 1880


• The Urban South• Aftermaths of Slavery

The Making of Radical Reconstruction

• Andrew Johnson• The Failure of Presidential

Reconstruction


• The Black Codes• The Radical Republicans


• The Origins of Civil Rights


• The Fourteenth Amendment


• The Reconstruction Act• Impeachment and the Election of

Grant


• The Fifteenth Amendment• The “Great Constitutional

Revolution”

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 15.3 The Presidential Election of 1868


• Boundaries of Freedom• The Rights of Women• Feminists and Radicals

Radical Reconstruction in the South

• “The Tocsin of Freedom”• The Black Officeholder

Radical Reconstruction in the South

• Carpetbaggers and Scalawags• Southern Republicans in Power• The Quest for Prosperity

The Overthrow of Reconstruction

• Reconstruction’s Opponents• “A Reign of Terror”


• The Liberal Republicans• The North’s Retreat


• The Triumph of the Redeemers• The Disputed Election and Bargain of

1877

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 15.4 Reconstruction in the South, 1867-1877

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 15.5 The Presidential Election of 1876


• The End of Reconstruction

Additional Art from Chapter 15

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyFrom the Plantation to the Senate

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company

Family Record, a lithograph marketed to formerslaves after the Civil War


A post–Civil War photograph of an unidentifiedblack family

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMother and Daughter Reading, Mt. Meigs

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyWinslow Homer’s 1876 painting


The Great Labor Question from a SouthernPoint of View


The Freedmen’s Bureau, an engraving fromHarper’s Weekly


A black family in the cotton fields after the Civil War,photographed in 1867.

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyFarmers with Cotton in the Courthouse Square


Chinese laborers at work on a Louisianaplantation during Reconstruction.


Selling a Freeman to Pay His Fine atMonticello, Florida

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyThaddeus Stevens

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyPresident Andrew Johnson, in an 1868


A Democratic Party broadside from the electionof 1866 in Pennsylvania


A Democratic Party broadside from the electionof 1866 in Pennsylvania

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyThe Fifteenth Amendment, an 1870 lithograph marking


Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner, an engraving by ThomasNast from Harper’s Weekly


A Delegation of Advocates of Woman SuffrageAddressing the House


Electioneering at the South, an engraving fromHarper’sWeekly

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyThe First Vote, an engraving from Harper’s Weekly

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyBlack and white members of the Mississippi Senate


The Operations of the Registration Laws andNegro Suffrage in the South

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyThe Shackle Broken—by the Genius of Freedom.

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyEmancipation


Black students outside a schoolhouse in a post–CivilWar photograph. The teacher is seated at the far right.

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMurder of Louisiana, an 1873 cartoon

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyA Prospective Scene in the City of Oaks


Two Members of the Ku Klux Klan in Their Disguises,from Harper’s Weekly

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyThe Old Plantation Home


Changes in graphic artist Thomas Nast’s depictionof blacks in Harper’s Weekly

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyOf Course He Wants to Vote the Democratic Ticket

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyIs This a Republican Form of Government?

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