Reconstruction Era (1865-1877) / editor, Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salem Press.

Shally-Jensen, Michael, editor.

Series:

Defining documents in American history (Salem Press)

Defining Documents in American History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877).

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Sources.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Industrialization--United States--Sources.

Industrialization.

United States--History--1865-1898--Sources.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 270 pages).

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection allows readers to gain new insights into the reconstruction era and the development of the industrial United States. Provides in-depth analysis of over twenty primary source documents to deliver a thorough examination of this important time in American history.

Contents:

Letter from Black Soldiers of North Carolina to the Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner

Address of a Convention of Negroes Held in Alexandria, VA

'The Education of the Freedmen'

Letters from Louisiana

Letter from Roanoke Island

The Sad State of Indian Affairs

Acts of State

The Freedmen's Bureau Bill

Civil Rights Act of 1866

First Reconstruction Act

Second Reconstruction Act

Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution

Articles of Impeachment against President Andrew Johnson

President Grant's First Inaugural Address

Black Codes and White Lives

Mississippi Black Code

Louisiana Black Code

Letter to T.P. Chandler

'A Long Silence'

From Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation since the War

Extreme Reactions

Notice from the Ku Klux K lan to Davie Jeems

'The First-Class Men in Our Town'

Letter to Senator Joseph C. Abbott on the Ku Klux Klan

A Contested Election: Report to Congress on the Activities of the Ku Klux Klan

From Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and Ku Klux Outrages of the Carolinas, by a 'Carpet-Bagger' Who Was Born and Lived There

Reconstruction Moves Ahead

'The North Owes the Colored Race a Deep Obligation'

Letter to Republican Senators and Representatives

'A Plea for General Amnesty'

'Half Free, Half Slave'

Civil Rights Act of 1875

An Ambiguous Legacy

United States v . Cruikshank

Blanche Bruce: Speech in the Senate

Freedmen's Monument Speech

Ulysses S. Grant: Letter to Daniel H. Chamberlain

Sharecropping Contract

Appendixes

Chronological List

Web Resources

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 8, 2014).

ISBN:

9781619254886

1619254883

OCLC:

882557967