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Index
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Abolitionists. See also Slavery
African American suffrage and,
165
Douglass, Frederick, 48–49
Fourteenth Amendment and,
89–90
Johnson, Andrew, Reconstruction plan and, 69
Lincoln, Abraham, Reconstruction plan and, 68
political rights for African
Americans and, 102
Sumner, Charles as, 114
women’s rights and, 94–95
Abuse, of African Americans, 78
Adams, John Quincy, 120
Advertisements, for lost relatives,
25
African American suffrage, 53–54.
See also Fifteenth Amendment; Fourteenth Amendment
debate and compromise on, 71,
88–89, 91, 166, 168
Douglass, Frederick, on, 52, 98
effects of, 135–36
elections of 1868 and, 168, 169
end of slavery and, 165
illiteracy and, 106
Johnson, Andrew, and, 46, 106
Stephens, Alexander, on
Georgia and, 71–74
U.S. Congress and, 94
African Americans. See also specific African American politicians; Slavery
bank for, 44
civil rights for, 71, 72
after Civil War, 30–31, 31 (ill.),
34
in Civil War, 15, 16, 124 (ill.)
discussing politics, 53 (ill.)
disenfranchisement of, 46, 88
(ill.), 100 (ill.), 106, 156, 166,
170, 190, 192 (ill.), 203–5
education and, 41, 134
educational institutions of, 43,
54 (ill.), 131
elections of 1868 and, 64,
167–68
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elections of 1876 and, 196–97
as employees on plantations,
39
enfranchisement of, 52, 53–54
equal rights for, 78, 79
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, and,
161
Freedmen’s Bureau and, 39–40
Freedmen’s Bureau school, 42
(ill.)
as governors, 132
harvesting cotton, 25 (ill.)
illiteracy and, 106, 123, 142
Johnson, Andrew, and, 43, 109
justice system and, 43, 78–79,
186
Ku Klux Klan and, 130, 135,
153, 155–56, 159 (ill.)
land and, 19, 23–25, 31–32,
35–36, 38–39
in law enforcement, 130
laws concerning, 19, 47, 48, 49,
69–70, 77, 80–81, 85
in Liberia, 18
migrations of, 25, 26, 205
mistreatment of, 31, 78
options for freed slaves, 26
political cartoon against, 191
(ill.)
in politics, 74, 105–6, 122–26,
130–31, 134–36, 137 (ill.),
138–41, 147, 149
population counts and, 12, 70,
71
as refugees, 28 (ill.)
Republicans and, 168, 169, 182
as sharecroppers, 22, 26
as slaves after freedom, 22, 26,
27–29
as soldiers, 15, 20, 124 (ill.)
store owners taking advantage
of, 65
Union League and, 127
Union troops providing for,
34–35, 36
violence against, 69, 78, 97–98,
99 (ill.), 101, 105–6, 153,
155–56, 159 (ill.)
violence committed by, 155
voting for first time, 105, 105
(ill.)
vs. white Southern voters, 105,
135
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Reconstruction Era: Primary Sources
Africans, 18, 20
After the War: A Southern Tour
(Reid), 24
Agnew, Spiro, 119
Akerman, Amos, 162
Alabama, 17, 102, 105
Alaska, 120
Alcohol avoidance, 205–6
Alcorn College, 131
American Anti-Slavery Society,
165, 169
American Civil War
African American regiments in,
55
African Americans after, 30–31,
31 (ill.), 34
African Americans in, 15, 16,
20, 124 (ill.)
devastating toll of, 2–3, 5, 9
end of, 1
Hayes, Rutherford B., in, 197
Johnson, Andrew, during, 108,
113
Lincoln, Abraham, and, 12, 13
newly freed slaves during, 14
(ill.)
slaves picking cotton during,
60 (ill.)
women’s roles and, 60–61
Americo-Liberians, 18
Ames, Oakes, 175–76, 177–78,
178 (ill.), 179–80, 180 (ill.),
181
Anderson, Jourdon, 32
Anderson, P. H., 32
Andrews, Sidney, 40, 64
Anthony, Susan B., 95
Antietam, Battle of, 9
Antislavery movement. See Abolitionists
Antislavery newspapers, 49
“Argument for the Impeachment of President Johnson”
(Sumner), 108–21
Arkansas
First Reconstruction Act of
1867 and, 102
Ku Klux Klan in, 156
Lincoln, Abraham, Reconstruction plan and, 68
Assassination, of Lincoln, Abraham, 68
Atlantic Monthly, 49