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Freedmen’s Bureau, 1866 (Granger)

Key Terms

Reconstruction 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments Freedmen’s Bureau Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson John Wilkes Booth sharecropping / tenant farming scalawags / carpetbaggers Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Radical Republicans Democrats & Redeemers American Equal Rights Association Historically Black Colleges &

Universities Henry McNeal Turner *

abolitionist movement suffrage movement National Woman Suffrage

Association American Woman Suffrage

Association Minor v. Happersatt Frederick Douglass Wendell Phillips Frances Ellen Harper Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony Sojourner Truth Lucy Stone / Henry Blackwell * Seneca Falls Convention of 1848

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Questions to Consider

To what extent did Reconstruction create a different life for African-Americans in the post-war South?

Many colleges and universities divide U.S. history courses into pre and post Reconstruction. Why do you believe Reconstruction is a “halfway” point for the history of America?

How did Reconstruction impact the women’s suffrage movement? In what ways did the emancipation of African-Americans create and prevent women from obtaining the right to vote?

If You’re Curious . . .

Loving Warriors: Selected Letters of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell, 1853-1893 ed. by Leslie Wheeler

Generations of Captivity: A History of American Slaves by Ira Berlin (Excellent chapter on “Freedom Generation” of Reconstruction slaves.)