The Reconstruction Era by Lee Wittman https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0 en-us 2020-02-18 14:23:30 UTC 2025-10-23 18:12:31 UTC hello@padlet.com What is a carpet-bagger? wittml0122 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/446815642 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.]]> 2020-02-18 14:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/446815642 Why are they called "carpet-baggers?" wittml0122 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/446819524 The people would carry around their possessions in a carpet bag.
https://elementcottage.com/products/large-victorian-traveler-carpetbag-blue-danube]]> 2020-02-18 14:37:35 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/446819524 wiskej1023 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451362503 Woodrow Wilson describes them as men bent on “an expedition for profit“ (Foner 661)]]> 2020-02-27 14:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451362503 wittml0122 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451493004 "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)]]> 2020-02-27 16:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451493004 Wade-Davis Bill wittml0122 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451962094 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)
]]> 2020-02-28 14:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451962094 Casualties wittml0122 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451970282 "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)]]> 2020-02-28 14:22:36 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451970282 What was it? wiskej1023 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451970834 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.]]> 2020-02-28 14:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451970834 Executions wittml0122 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451973662 Henry Wirz, a Southern prisoner-of-war commandant, was a scapegoat for treating the Union prisoners badly, and was hanged (Batty and Parish 198).]]> 2020-02-28 14:27:18 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451973662 wittml0122 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451975595 The South lost a quarter of its men in the Civil War (Batty and Parish 198).]]> 2020-02-28 14:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451975595 Economically, Politically, and Socially wiskej1023 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451979292
  • Confederate states were shattered...slaves were free
  • Value of land dropped
  • New social status of former slaves
  • African Americans gained voting rights
    • ]]>     2020-02-28 14:34:50 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451979292     A Shift in Power wittml0122 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451980002 The Reconstruction Era shifted power away from States and to the Federal System.]]> 2020-02-28 14:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/451980002 Southern States wiskej1023 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/452961358
  • Resented the government of new states
    •          -Reconstruction act of 1867 
    • Refused to “rebuild” social structure
    ]]>     2020-03-02 14:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/452961358     The KKK wiskej1023 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/452967759
  • 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
    ]]>     2020-03-02 14:30:52 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/452967759     The Ku Klux Klan Act (1871) wiskej1023 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/452971697 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.]]> 2020-03-02 14:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/452971697 President Johnson's Proclamation wittml0122 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455044706 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)
    ]]>     2020-03-05 14:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455044706     wiskej1023 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455059920 2020-03-05 14:20:48 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455059920 Carpet Baggers wittml0122 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455065650 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)]]>     2020-03-05 14:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455065650     wittml0122 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455067177 https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2019/feb/07/new-exhibit-covers-history-of-mississip/]]> 2020-03-05 14:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455067177 Huck Finn as an allegory of Reconstruction's failure of equality wittml0122 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455070322 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)]]>     2020-03-05 14:32:06 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455070322     Huck's Father as an allegory. wittml0122 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455133821 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)]]>     2020-03-05 15:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455133821     Jim Crow Laws wittml0122 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455141697 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.]]>     2020-03-05 15:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455141697     Johnson's Failure of Inequality wittml0122 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455148754
  • 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)
    ]]>     2020-03-05 15:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455148754     Reconstruction Video wittml0122 https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455741336 2020-03-06 14:04:45 UTC https://padlet.com/wittml0122/ts42aeduvas0/wish/455741336