Reconstruction and Race Relations
Assignment 1:
Reconstruction and Race Relations
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for HIS105
1865, slavery was Abolished from the from the Thirteenth Amendment that was approved
In January, Congress created The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned land also known as The Freedmen’s Bureau in March, this bureau was created to assist Southern blacks and whites in the transition from society based slavery to freedom from the south for one year.
The resone for this was that Southern whites wanted to continue their way of life without interference of the northern government; they wanted the blacks to be binded to the plantations. In this time of 1865 a lot of important History Events took place The Assassination of President Lincoln, Andrew Johnson becomes President, Lee surrenders to Grant, and Mississippi created
The Black Codes. Although the Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery, the whole “freed blacks” was very much unresolved in the South. Now the white power structure in the South wanted to keep their way of life as close to what it was as possible, so under the mild Reconstruction policies of President Johnson they where able to reestablish order to the Confederate states with these codes. The Black Codes were designed to limit newly freed blacks’ activity so that they were available for work. For example a lot of states made sure that
Blacks to sign yearly labor contracts, and if they didn’t they risk confinement or vagrants and could be forced or fined into unpaid labor. In the winter of 1865-1866 the Ku Klux Klan was formed in Pulaski Tennessee it started out as secret society but later with former Confederate generals the KKK became political organization. The KKK aimed for political defeat of the Republican Party and the absolute white supremacy. Since the Republicans enfranchised the freed people conservatives began to look for a new way, with General Forrest visiting TEN from ATL several times
Reconstruction and Race Relations
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for HIS105
1865, slavery was Abolished from the from the Thirteenth Amendment that was approved
In January, Congress created The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned land also known as The Freedmen’s Bureau in March, this bureau was created to assist Southern blacks and whites in the transition from society based slavery to freedom from the south for one year.
The resone for this was that Southern whites wanted to continue their way of life without interference of the northern government; they wanted the blacks to be binded to the plantations. In this time of 1865 a lot of important History Events took place The Assassination of President Lincoln, Andrew Johnson becomes President, Lee surrenders to Grant, and Mississippi created
The Black Codes. Although the Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery, the whole “freed blacks” was very much unresolved in the South. Now the white power structure in the South wanted to keep their way of life as close to what it was as possible, so under the mild Reconstruction policies of President Johnson they where able to reestablish order to the Confederate states with these codes. The Black Codes were designed to limit newly freed blacks’ activity so that they were available for work. For example a lot of states made sure that
Blacks to sign yearly labor contracts, and if they didn’t they risk confinement or vagrants and could be forced or fined into unpaid labor. In the winter of 1865-1866 the Ku Klux Klan was formed in Pulaski Tennessee it started out as secret society but later with former Confederate generals the KKK became political organization. The KKK aimed for political defeat of the Republican Party and the absolute white supremacy. Since the Republicans enfranchised the freed people conservatives began to look for a new way, with General Forrest visiting TEN from ATL several times