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Chapter 17 - Reconstruction: North and South

Images and Maps

HarpWeek: American Political Prints, 1766-1876

Images of Reconstruction

Treasures of Congress: Reconstruction

African American Odyssey
(This site is a good secondary source as well.)

HarpWeek: Reconstruction Timeline

 

Primary Sources

The Homestead Act, May 20, 1862

The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864

Abraham Lincoln: Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill, July 8, 1864

Reconstruction Era Documents

History Central: Documents from Reconstruction

Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, June 20, 1866

HarpWeek: Towards Racial Equality
(Images and text from Harper's Weekly)

HarpWeek: Finding Precedent: Hayes vs. Tilden, The Electoral College Controversy of 1876-1877

HarpWeek: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Famous American Trials: The Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial 1868

Documents from Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867

Civil Rights Act of 1866, 14 Stat. 27 (1866)

Freedmen's Bureau Online

Andrew Johnson's Obituary from the New York Times

Frances Butler Leigh, 1838-1910, Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War

 

Secondary Sources

Andrew Johnson: The Impeached President

HarpWeek: Presidential Elections, 1860-1884

A Hundred Years of Terror: A Special Report Prepared by the Southern Poverty Law Center

Reconstruction: A State Divided
(This article explores this period in Louisiana.)

Rutherford B. Hayes: The Campaign and Election of 1876

 

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