RECONSTRUCTION OUTLINE

"RECONSTRUCTING A BROKEN UNION"

I. Reconstruction
A. PRESIDENTIAL RECONSTRUCTION
--Lincoln
--Johnson
B. CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION
--Thaddeus Stevens & Charles Sumner
--Wade-Davis Bill (ironclad oath)
--Freedmen's Bureau
C. JOHNSON'S “RESTORATION”
--Black Codes
D. RADICALS STRIKE BACK
1. First Civil Rights Bill
2. First Reconstruction Acts
3. 14th Amendment
4. Tenure of Office Act
5. Fifteenth Amendment
E. The Compromise of 1877

The Souls of Black Folk (1901) W.E.B. DuBois:
"For this much all men know: despite compromise, war, and struggle, the Negro is not free. In the backwoods...he may not leave the plantation of his birth...in the whole rural South the black farmers are...bound by law and custom to an economic slavery, from which the only escape is death or the penitentiary. In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the Negroes are a segregated and servile caste, with restricted rights and privileges. Before the courts, both in law and custom, they stand on a different and peculiar basis...The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line."