Book contents
- Never Together
- Studies in New Economic Thinking
- Never Together
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I The Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 1 Slavery and the Civil War
- Chapter 2 Reconstruction
- Chapter 3 The Gilded Age and Jim Crow Laws
- Part II The Twentieth Century
- Part III The Twenty-First Century
- References
- Index
Chapter 2 - Reconstruction
from Part I - The Nineteenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2022
Book contents
- Never Together
- Studies in New Economic Thinking
- Never Together
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I The Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 1 Slavery and the Civil War
- Chapter 2 Reconstruction
- Chapter 3 The Gilded Age and Jim Crow Laws
- Part II The Twentieth Century
- Part III The Twenty-First Century
- References
- Index
Summary
Reconstruction followed the Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination. Under President Andrew Johnson, presidential reconstruction was favorable to the defeated slaveowners. When Johnson was impeached and then defeated in the polls, Radical Republicans in Congress took over Reconstruction. They were not radical enough to give freedmen 40 acres and a mule, and their efforts to reform Southern state governments were only temporary. President Grant tried to help freedmen, but Republicans transferred their interest from the violent South to the expanding West.
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- Never TogetherThe Economic History of a Segregated America, pp. 54 - 90Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022