The Reconstruction Era
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The Reconstruction Era

Primary Documents on Events from 1865 to 1877

  1. 456 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Reconstruction Era

Primary Documents on Events from 1865 to 1877

About this book

As the sole purveyors of news and opinion, Reconstruction-era newspapers bent and spindled American public opinion with little regard for independent journalism and great regard for party politics. In other words, the newspapers of the Reconstruction era served political rather than social needs. The issues facing the nation were momentous, and opinions on how to deal with the problems were vigorously presented and defended. Using editorials, letters, essays, and news reports that appeared throughout the country's print media, this book reveals how editors, politicians, and other Americans used the press to influence opinion from 1865 to 1877. Issues such as civil rights, constitutional amendments, a presidential impeachment, Indian wars, immigration, and political corruption dominated the newspapers and gave journalists opportunities to advance their agendas. Each of the 30 chapters of this book introduces an event or issue and includes news articles representing opposing sides of the issue as it affected Americans. Readers can use the introductory essays and primary source documents to understand how newspapers and magazines presented vital events and issues to Americans of the day. This invaluable reference source presents hard-to-find opinions in the words of those who wrote them.

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Information

Publisher
Greenwood
Year
2003
Print ISBN
9780313320941
eBook ISBN
9780313017063
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
American Civil War History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Series Foreword
  3. Introduction: Newspapers during Reconstruction
  4. Chronology of Events
  5. Chapter 1: The First Year: Expressions of Hope and Concern, 1865
  6. Chapter 2: Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction Plan, 1865–66
  7. Chapter 3: The Freedmen's Bureau, 1865–72
  8. Chapter 4: Black Codes, 1865
  9. Chapter 5: Seating the South's Congressional Delegation, 1865
  10. Chapter 6: President Johnson versus Radical Congress, 1866
  11. Chapter 7: Freedmen's Bureau Act, 1866
  12. Chapter 8: Civil Rights Act of 1866
  13. Chapter 9: Black Suffrage: Before the Vote, 1865–66
  14. Chapter 10: The Fourteenth Amendment, 1866
  15. Chapter 11: New Orleans Riot, 1866
  16. Chapter 12: Congressional Reconstruction, 1867
  17. Chapter 13: Black Suffrage: The First Vote, 1867
  18. Chapter 14: The Alaska Purchase, 1867
  19. Chapter 15: Impeachment of President Johnson, 1868
  20. Chapter 16: Creating the Carpetbagger Myth, 1867–69
  21. Chapter 17: The Battle for Woman Suffrage, 1867–70
  22. Chapter 18: Indian Policy in the West, 1867–76
  23. Chapter 19: Violence and the Ku Klux Klan, 1867–72
  24. Chapter 20: Sunday Liquor Laws, 1866–73
  25. Chapter 21: Mormons and Polygamy, 1870–77
  26. Chapter 22: Black Suffrage: The Fifteenth Amendment and Beyond, 1869–77
  27. Chapter 23: Chinese Immigration, 1867–72
  28. Chapter 24: Boss Tweed and His New York Ring, 1870–73
  29. Chapter 25: The Crédit Mobilier Scandal, 1872–73
  30. Chapter 26: The Trial of Susan B. Anthony, 1873
  31. Chapter 27: The Civil Rights Act of 1875
  32. Chapter 28: The Hamburg Massacre, 1876
  33. Chapter 29: The Compromised Election of 1876
  34. Chapter 30: The End of Reconstruction, 1874–77
  35. Selected Bibliography
  36. Index