Impediments to radical Reconstruction:
What is happening in society that is hindering or preventing lasting progress for Reconstruction, and especially for African American rights and success? Whose actions are responsible for this?
● Black codes
● The KKK
● Panic of 1873
● US v. Cruikshank
● US v Reese
● Slaughterhouse cases
● Problems in the Grant administration
● Compromise of 1877
● Northern support wanes
● Faltering of Congressional support
Thesis:
In American society, new judicial rulings and the lack of hope of Northerners and of Congress is hindering the lasting progress for Reconstruction. The Supreme Court is the main offender especially for African Americans rights being limited. This is due to the Democrats restoration of power in the South.
What is happening in society that is hindering or preventing lasting progress for Reconstruction, and especially for African American rights and success? Whose actions are responsible for this?
● Black codes
● The KKK
● Panic of 1873
● US v. Cruikshank
● US v Reese
● Slaughterhouse cases
● Problems in the Grant administration
● Compromise of 1877
● Northern support wanes
● Faltering of Congressional support
Thesis:
In American society, new judicial rulings and the lack of hope of Northerners and of Congress is hindering the lasting progress for Reconstruction. The Supreme Court is the main offender especially for African Americans rights being limited. This is due to the Democrats restoration of power in the South.
The organized violence of of the Ku Klux Klan and the White League made life "worse than slavery" for Southern blacks.
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March 23, 1867
In this commentary on President Andrew Johnson's veto of the military government bill, Nast portrays the scales of justice favoring the South and the Confederate Army.
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