Reconstruction Era of the south by Ben Fetting https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37 Made with a quick smile en-us 2022-03-03 14:00:51 UTC 2025-10-16 16:40:24 UTC hello@padlet.com Pres. Abraham Lincoln fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099258240 -1861-1865
-Led the nation through the American Civil War 
-Preserving the Union
-Abolishing slavery
-Bolstering the federal government
-Modernizing the U.S. economy
#RepresentRep.]]> 2022-03-17 03:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099258240 Pres. Andrew Johnson fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099258844 -1865-1869
-Became President following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
-Favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union without protection for the former slaves. 
#Proud2beBLUE]]> 2022-03-17 03:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099258844 Pres. Ulysses S. Grant fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099262827 -1869-1877
-Created the Justice Department
-Worked with Radical Republicans to protect African Americans
#RepresentRep.

]]> 2022-03-17 03:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099262827 Freedman’s Bureau fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099267053 -Established by Congress 
-1865-72
-It provided practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom.]]> 2022-03-17 03:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099267053 Reconstruction Acts fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099267388 -Enacted by U.S. Legislation
-1867–68
-Outlined the conditions under which the Southern states would be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.]]> 2022-03-17 03:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099267388 Enforcement Acts fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099267614 -Ulysses S. Grant
-1870-71
-Three bills provided guide lines for criminal codes that protected African Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws.
#Change]]> 2022-03-17 03:31:06 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099267614 Emancipation Proclamation fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099268658 -President Abraham Lincoln
-1863
-Lincoln famously stated “all enslaved people in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
#BiggerthanBlackandWhite]]> 2022-03-17 03:31:55 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099268658 fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099275374 2022-03-17 03:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099275374 “Patience on a Monument” fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099299836 This cartoon catalogs the indignities suffered by African Americans that Republican Reconstruction policies were trying to rectify.
#FatherOfAmericanCartoons]]> 2022-03-17 03:59:15 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099299836 Klan Activity fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099321589 -Klan violence worked to suppress black voting, and campaign seasons were deadly. 
-More than 2,000 people were killed, wounded, or otherwise injured in Louisiana within a few weeks prior to the Presidential election of November 1868.]]> 2022-03-17 04:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099321589 “This is a White Mans Government” fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099370887 Depicted standing atop a black Civil War veteran are a “Five Points Irishman,” Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Wall Street financier and Democrat August Belmont.
#WhiteMansGov.]]> 2022-03-17 05:04:14 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099370887 “The Man with the (Carpet) Bags” fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099375441 This political cartoon depicts a common Southern attitude toward Northerners during Reconstruction, 1872.]]> 2022-03-17 05:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099375441 Thomas Nast fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099384936 - A caricaturas and editorial cartoonist 
-considered to be the “Father of the American Cartoon”. 
-He was the scourge of Democratic Representative “Boss” Tweed and the Tammany Hall Democratic party political machine.]]> 2022-03-17 05:16:16 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099384936 Hiram Revels (1822–1901) fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099396224
-The first Black citizen to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
-Revels helped organize two volunteer regiments of Blacks in the Union Army.
- During his year in senate, Revels advocated desegregation in the schools and on the railroads.
#FirstBlackSenator]]> 2022-03-17 05:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099396224 Origins fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099407919 -1865
-Pulaski, Tennessee
-Originally founded as a social club for former Confederate soldiers, the Klan evolved into a terrorist organization. It would be responsible for thousands of deaths, and would help to weaken the political power of Southern blacks and Republicans.
#TheBeginingoftheEnd]]> 2022-03-17 05:36:44 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099407919 Ku Klux Klan Act fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099416948 -Ulysses S. Grant
-1871
-Allowed the government to act against terrorist organizations. Grant did not rigorously enforce these laws, although he did order the arrest of hundreds of Klan members.
-Convictions in the South we’re difficult to obtain and the members were often let go because of the support for that clan in the South.
#WhenWillItEnd]]> 2022-03-17 05:45:01 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2099416948 Successes fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2101106353 -Important landmarks in civil rights for black Americans were reached at that time. The “Reconstruction Amendments” passed by Congress between 1865 and 1870 abolished slavery, gave black Americans equal protection under the law, and granted suffrage to black men.]]> 2022-03-18 01:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2101106353 fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2101108076 -This photo depicts a Freedman’s Bureau agent stands between armed groups of whites and freedmen.
-It illustrates the power that African Americans have gained during the reconstruction era.]]> 2022-03-18 01:46:57 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2101108076 Failures fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2101120779 -White-supremacy groups, Jim Crow laws, and state constitutions effectively negated these political gains and subjected black Americans to second-class citizenry.]]> 2022-03-18 01:55:39 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2101120779 Overall fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2101126193 -Despite these failures, I believe the reconstruction period was a great success because compared to having no rights or liberties before the reconstruction era African Americans were allowed to actively participate in government and equal protection as citizens of the United States of America.]]> 2022-03-18 01:59:23 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2101126193 Reconstruction in 4 minutes fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2101137023 2022-03-18 02:06:09 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2101137023 fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2101965191 2022-03-18 13:52:18 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2101965191 Post-Reconstruction fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2101989502 Following reconstruction, many African American prioritized a higher education because before reconstruction they weren't allowed to get an education.
#YesweCan]]> 2022-03-18 14:05:35 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2101989502 Black Codes lemoil0485 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2102034328 Black Codes were laws set in place post civil war as a means to continue the exploitation of the black American labor force. In many states there were labor codes that black Americans were forced to sign, and if they refused they risked being arrested, fined, and forced into unpaid labor. ]]> 2022-03-18 14:30:35 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2102034328 Huck Finn Chapter 14 fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2102114756 “I see it warn’t no use wasting words – you can’t learn a n***** to argue. So I quit” (Twain 80).

This quote shows how Huck still discriminates Jim, someone he considers a friend later in the story and how African Americans were still subject to racism following reconstruction.]]> 2022-03-18 15:17:27 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2102114756 Huck Finn Chapter 31 fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2102126111 “Well, I RECKON! There’s two hunderd dollars reward on him. It’s like picking up money out’n the road” (Twain 225)

In this quote Huck meets a boy on the road tells him Jim has been caught. And he is worth a pile of money to his captors. The boy sees slave Jim as a commodity, not as a person. This shows how African Americans we not given the rights and freedoms the white man had.]]> 2022-03-18 15:24:14 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2102126111 Huck Finn Chapter 9 fettib0245 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2102139958 “Jim, this is nice,” I says. “I wouldn’t want to be nowhere else but here” (Twain 37).

This quote is when Huck and Jim are relaxing on the island and Jim says he enjoys being by Huck and sees him as a friend. This shows some of the successes of the reconstruction because before the reconstruction  era a friendship between an African American and a White man would have been unheard of.

]]> 2022-03-18 15:33:04 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2102139958 Huck Finn Chapter 6 lemoil0485 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2102140986 “Thinks I, what is this country a-coming to? It was ‘lection day, and I was just about to go and vote, myself, if I warn’t too drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a State in this country where they’d let that n***** vote, I drawed out. I says I’ll never vote agin” (Twain 27).

It’s made obviously evident through quotes such as Pap here, that the south’s attitude towards people of African descent was still harshly negative. Even though rights were given to them, the social aspect was still far from mended during this time.]]> 2022-03-18 15:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2102140986 Huck Finn Chapter 32 lemoil0485 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2102151413 “It warn’t the grounding – that didn’t keep us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder-head.” 
“Good gracious! anybody hurt?” 
“No’m. Killed a n*****.” 
“Well, it’s lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt” (Twain 178).

Aunt Polly talks to Huck about his ventures and how a black man died, which she fails to appreciate. She overlooks the fact and doesn’t even recognize the dead man as a person because he is African American. This shows that even after the Civil Rights Act of 1866 which declared all U.S born people as citizens, the white population to some extent ignores it altogether.
]]> 2022-03-18 15:39:58 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2102151413 Reforms lemoil0485 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2111041911 - 13th Amendment abolished slavery
-14th Amendment/Civil Rights act of 1866 gave black Americans citizenship
-15th amendment gave black Americans the right to vote
-Civil rights act of 1875 prohibited racial discrimination]]> 2022-03-24 03:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2111041911 Life Expectancy in 19th Century lemoil0485 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2111050367 -White Males - 44.1 years
-White Females - 46.4 years

-Estimated life expectancy for American Blacks - 33.7 years for both genders]]> 2022-03-24 03:42:00 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2111050367 Populations lemoil0485 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2111073508 -Population of United States in 1860 - 31.4 million
-Amount that were black Americans - 4.4 million / 14.1 %
-Percentage of Black Americans in South - more than 90%]]> 2022-03-24 04:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2111073508 Racist Attacks lemoil0485 https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2111085212 -Post civil war, more than 2,000 white supremacist massacres and killings occurred
-One in New Orleans in 1866 was backlash to a march supporting the convention for Louisiana's new constitution
-Upwards of 200 people were killed
-More than 2,000 racial terror lynching's of black men occurred between 1865 and 1876]]> 2022-03-24 04:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/fettib0245/q10tsfn22b5m5d37/wish/2111085212