The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

410 Chapter 15 Reconstruction and the South blacks, the southern states would have none of it. Without them the necessary three- ...

The Fifteenth Amendment 411 and lesser appointive officers. Even the Supreme Court was affected. Its size was reduced and its ju ...

412 Chapter 15 Reconstruction and the South in the Electoral College, 214 to 80, but the popular vote was close: 3 million to 2. ...

DEBATING THE PAST Were Reconstruction Governments Corrupt? 413 taken a moderate position: Reconstruction may have failed, but it ...

414 Chapter 15 Reconstruction and the South The Reconstruction acts and the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment achieved th ...

“Black Republican” Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers 415 deserved to be treated decently and given a chance to get ahe ...

416 Success of the Republican “Southern Strategy” Battles in the West In the late 1860s the rise of the Republican party was due ...

The Freedmen’s Bureau built 4,329 schools, attended by some 250,000 former slaves, in the postwar South. Many of the teachers in ...

418 Chapter 15 Reconstruction and the South The Ravaged Land The South’s grave economic problems complicated the rebuilding of i ...

The Ravaged Land 419 serve on juries. Similarly, black women became more like white women, devoting themselves to separate “sphe ...

420 Chapter 15 Reconstruction and the South Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System Before the passage of the Reconstruction acts ...

Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System 421 Reconstruction, in the literal sense of the word, was accomplished chiefly at the exp ...

422 Chapter 15 Reconstruction and the South The White Backlash Radical southern governments could sustain them- selves only as l ...

The White Backlash 423 rituals, exotic symbols, and other paraphernalia calcu- lated to impress unsophisticated people, they enr ...

424 Chapter 15 Reconstruction and the South to Washington for help. President Grant’s attorney general, Edwards Pierrepont, refu ...

meaning measures benefiting particular groups, whether labor unions or railroad companies or farm organizations. Nearly all had ...

426 Chapter 15 Reconstruction and the South the Court and the commission. Since independents were rare even on the Supreme Court ...

policies. On the eve of the commission’s decision in the Florida controversy, he was apparently ready to vote in favor of Tilden ...

428 leaving him for dead; rogues attack and rob him. If war is hell, leaving it is no picnic, either. Ada suffers too. Her fathe ...

429 plantations. There is evidence, too, that southern women encouraged their men to fight. In 1862 and again the next year, a l ...