Dollar Chapter 15

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Dollar Chapter 15

15.1: President Johnson and the Reconstruction

Consider 1

* Reasons Johnson gives for opposing black suffrage.

* Johnson held the view that the confederate states were still part of the union and the reconstruction and should be under the control of the executive branch.

* The blacks should not govern themselves, but they should rule the white race.

* Negroes have shown less capacity to be able to govern than any other race

* When they were left alone, they relapsed into barbarism.

* Blacks were ignorant when it came to public affairs.

15.2 Reconstruction in Indian Territory

Consider 1

* Why ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution caused so much turmoil among the Five Civilized Tribes;

* The turmoil exhibited over the problem of citizenship of freedmen in the Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations had been similar to the reaction of many conservatives of the South to the ratification of the 14th and 15th amendments

* Since the 5 civilized Nations had been allied with the confederacy, the problem of reestablishing a working relationship with the US had to encountered.

* The principle points that came up were the status of freed men in the nations, Compensation for loss of property, and Cession of lands by the several tribes to be used for settlement.

Document 15.3 Mississippi Black Code, 1865

Consider 1

* Why these "Black Codes" are similar to those issued by the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian governments;

* After the war the Choctaws and Chickasaws through their governments attempted to control the economic activity and status of the Negro.

* Regulations were drawn up similar to the contract, vagrancy and apprenticeship provisions in the postwar Black Codes in most of the states of the South.

* The "Black Codes" limited the rights and the mobility of blacks, were put into action in every Southern State.

Consider 2

* The racial assumptions and fears underlying this code.

* They didn't want free Negroes or mulatto to intermarry with any white person or for any white person to marry someone outside of their race.

* If a black person and a white person got married it was considered to be a felony.

* There were many restrictions that made it hard for Blacks or mulatto to have freedom.

* Southerners were trying to establish a labor system that would give them as much control over blacks as slavery had.

Consider 3

* Why the penalty for whites who violated the code was more severe than that for blacks;

* The white men were expected to enforce these laws.

* They were expected to set an example for the rest of the people.

* If the white men didn't follow these laws, then the blacks wouldn't stick to them for sure.

Document 15.4 The Ku Klux Klan

Consider 1

* The contrast between the Klan's stated purpose and its behavior as described in the grand jury report;

* The goal was to redeem the south from Republicanism and black rule.

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