an unfinished revolution?. the legacy of reconstruction
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An Unfinished Revolution?
The Legacy of Reconstruction
To consider in order to help answer this question:
Is it simply the negation of slavery? What comes with it? What is being abolished exactly? How much do you have to abolish to truly get rid of slavery/ achieve freedom?
Answer for these three groups: freedmen, victorious north, white south
What exactly is freedom?
Freedmen:
Victorious North:
White South
For each group (Freedmen, Victorious North and White South) sum up what they wanted from Reconstruction in 1-3 words
CHEW ON THIS INFO.
Freedman’s Bureau
“Wrong man,
wrong values,
at the wrong time”
- Frederick Douglass
Andrew Johnson
Presidential Reconstruction
Make a prediction
about what the
Emboldened South may
choose to do next.
PREDICTION…PREDICTION…
Black Codes: A recreation of slavery if not in name then in fact.
