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Reconstruction (overview)
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Ages: 14 - 18
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This video is accompanied by text. "While Southerners were mourning the loss of their financially lucrative labor source, more than four million former slaves were trying to find their way as freedmen. The majority of the emancipated blacks were illi...terate, with limited skills and financial resources..."
The one factor that connected most former slaves was a thirst for religion. Many masters had allowed their slaves to worship beside them, but with the Emancipation Proclamation former slaves began developing their own churches (Professionally produced material with scholarly ideas and arguments.)
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December 28, 2009 at 04:53 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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This video is accompanied by text. "In 1867, the political battle between President Johnson and Congress over southern Reconstruction came to a confrontation. The Radical Republicans in Congress were not content with curbing Johnson’s authority by ov...erriding his vetoes--they wanted to remove him altogether. Under the laws of the time, removing Johnson meant that Ben Wade, the president pro tempore of the Senate, would become president.
While many considered Johnson to be an inadequate president, he had done nothing to merit removal from office. Johnson believed that everything he did was in the interest of preserving a constitutional government..." (Professionally produced material with scholarly ideas and arguments.)
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December 28, 2009 at 05:06 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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This video is accompanied by text. "A clash between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction was now inevitable. By the end of 1865, Radical Republican views had gained a majority in Congress, and the decisive year of 1866 saw a gradual dim...inishing of President Johnson’s power..." (Professionally produced material with scholarly ideas and arguments.)
In June of 1866, the Joint Committee on Reconstruction determined that, by seceding, the southern states had forfeited “all civil and political rights under the Constitution.” The Committee rejected President Johnson’s Reconstruction plan, denied seating of southern legislators, and maintained that only Congress could determine if, when, and how Reconstruction would take place.
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December 28, 2009 at 05:03 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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This video is accompanied by text. "When Congress convened in December 1865, the legislative members from the newly reconstituted southern states presented themselves at the Capitol. Among them were Alexander H. Stephens--who was the ex-vice-presiden...t of the Confederacy--four Confederate generals, five colonels, and several other rebels. After four bloody years of war, the presence of these Confederates infuriated the Congressional Republicans, who immediately denied seats to all members from the eleven former Confederate states..." (Professionally produced material with scholarly ideas and arguments.)
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December 28, 2009 at 05:01 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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This video is accompanied by text. "In the spring of 1865, the Civil War came to an end, leaving over 620,000 dead and a devastating path of destruction throughout the south. The North now faced the task of reconstructing the ravaged and indignant Co...nfederate states. There were many important questions that needed to be answered as the nation faced the challenges of peace:
Who would direct the process of Reconstruction? The South itself, Congress, or the President?
Should the Confederate leaders be tried for treason?
How would the south, both physically and economically devastated, be rebuilt? And at whose expense?
How would the south be readmitted and reintegrated into the Union?..." (Professionally produced material with scholarly ideas and arguments.)
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December 28, 2009 at 05:00 PM
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Ages: 6 - 18
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Despite gaining their freedom, African-Americans face struggles in the years after the Civil War includes amendments 13,14,15 and other political acts during that time. Explains problems that occured after Reconstruction ends.
November 14, 2010 at 10:52 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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This video is accompanied by text. "In the election of 1868, General Ulysses S. Grant, the most popular northern hero to emerge from the Civil War, became president. Grant ran on the Republican ticket with the slogan, “Let us have peace” against the ...Democratic candidate Horatio Seymour. The Republican platform endorsed the Reconstruction policy of Congress, payment of the national debt with gold, and cautious defense of black suffrage. Grant swept the Electoral College with 214 votes, compared to Seymour’s 80.. " (Professionally produced material with scholarly ideas and arguments.)
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December 28, 2009 at 05:10 PM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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During Reconstruction, people from the North — some with bad intentions and some with good intentions — headed to the New South, where they were called "carpetbaggers." This video gives an animated example of how the carpetbaggers came to be.
December 6, 2009 at 07:58 PM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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Mr. Khan of Khan Academy focuses on American history. This is very brief; instructor needs to supplement with more information. This segment is Reconstruction to the Great Depression. (14:23)
August 10, 2011 at 08:09 PM
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Ages: 8 - 18
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In this video, a Confederate soldier making his way home at the end of the Civil War is stopped by Union soldiers at a checkpoint, then cooks for them in exchange for a day’s rations. He shows what are in the cooking rations that he has and talks abo...ut what he cooks for the Union soldiers.
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December 7, 2009 at 02:34 PM
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