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A carpet bagger is a person from the northern United States who went to the South after the Civil War to become rich or powerful from the Reconstruction.

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The people would carry around their possessions in a carpet bag.
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Woodrow Wilson describes them as men bent on “an expedition for profit“ (Foner 661)

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"Some of the carpetbaggers were able and sincere people who wanted to help the blacks; some hoped to make their fortunes in the reconstructed South; some were crooks" (Boardman 81)

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Required:

half of white male citizens to take an oath of loyalty to the Constitution

the abolition of slavery

any "state debt incurred for the Confederacy repudiated"

From there, the government would be helped

(Boardman 77)

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A time period following the Civil War where the United States looked to adjust socially and politically to integrating African Americans into a newly refined society across the country.

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"620,000 soldiers had died ... almost as many as in all other wars in which the United States had ever participated in" (Batty and Parish 198)

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The South lost a quarter of its men in the Civil War (Batty and Parish 198).

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Henry Wirz, a Southern prisoner-of-war commandant, was a scapegoat for treating the Union prisoners badly, and was hanged (Batty and Parish 198).

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The Reconstruction Era shifted power away from States and to the Federal System.

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Confederate states were shattered...slaves were free

Value of land dropped

New social status of former slaves

African Americans gained voting rights

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Resented the government of new states

-Reconstruction act of 1867

Refused to “rebuild” social structure

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Social terrorist group for former confederate soldiers

-Established to retain superiority in a white-dominated society

Continued to challenge political authority of constitutional reconstruction

Continued to grow from this point

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Passed by Congress in order to act against terrorist organizations. President Grant did not rigorously enforce these laws, although he did order the arrest of hundreds of Klan members.

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basic belief about the civil war and reconstruction

The Union had not been broken since the Confederate states did not have the constitutional authority to secede. Therefore, they should not be treated harshly.

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The Union had not been broken since the Confederate states did not have the constitutional authority to secede. Therefore, they should not be treated harshly.

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Johnson wanted to punish the South severely in the beginning, not allowing military and civil officers of the confederacy to vote or anyone who owns property worth more than $20,000.

Johnson also appointed provisional governors who were under the control of former slave holders.

(Boardman 78)

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The "King" and the "Duke" were a pair of con artists who travel from town to town cheating townspeople out of money with various schemes

" 'Gentlemen,' says the [carpet-bagger]... 'I will reveal it to you, for I feel I may have confidence in you.  By rights I am a duke!' " (Twain 123)

" 'I [another carpet-bagger] am the late Dauphin!' ... your eyes is lookin' at this very moment on the pore  disappeared Dauphin, Looy the Seventeen, son of Looy the Sixteen and Marry Antonette.' " (Twain 125)

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https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2019/feb/07/new-exhibit-covers-history-of-mississip/

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Huck Finn as an allegory of Reconstruction's failure of equality

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Huck Finn as an allegory of Reconstruction's failure of equality

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Although Huck Finn is set before the abolition of slaves, Twain makes the relationship between Huck and Jim as an allegory.

Huck pulls numerous pranks on Jim, one where Huck "found a rattlesnake... killed him, and curled him up on the foot of Jim's blanket" (Twain 53).

Jim is only good to Huck, but Huck still disrespects Jim.  This is an allegory because even though Jim is only good to Huck, being an allegory for white people not accepting black people into society. ("The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Allegorical References" King)

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Huck's father is a drunk, seen throughout the beginning of the book "going down town to get some whisky" (Twain 21).

This is an allegory for failing Southern white farmers, who struggled after the Civil War. ("The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Allegorical References" King)

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Jim Crow laws were laws created by the Southern Governments meant to limit black people's power, keeping them from being equal to white people.
The most famous law is segregation, the idea of separate but equal.

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President Johnson didn't support equality, and believed that black people are inferior

The reformed government didn't help and established "Black Codes" to stop black equality

(Boardman 78)