Graphic Organizer: The Lost Promise of Reconstruction
To what extent did Founding principles of liberty, equality, and justice become a reality for African Americans from Reconstruction to the end of the nineteenth century?
- I can interpret primary sources related to Founding principles of liberty, equality, and justice from Reconstruction to the end of the nineteenth century.
- I can explain how laws and policy, courts, and individuals and groups contributed to or pushed back against the quest for liberty, equality, and justice for African Americans.
- I can create an argument using evidence from primary sources.
- I can analyze issues in history to help find solutions to present-day challenges.
Directions: Identify the main ideas and connections to the Founding principles using the information you gathered from your assigned documents.
| Document Title and Date | Main ideas | Connection to or Violation of Founding Principles |
|---|---|---|
| General Order No. 3, June 19, 1865, U.S. Major General Gordon Granger | ||
| The Reconstruction Amendments: Thirteenth Amendment, 1865, Fourteenth Amendment, 1868, Fifteenth Amendment, 1870 | ||
| Frederick Douglass, “What the Black Man Wants,” 1865 | ||
| The Freedmen’s Bureau Act of 1865 | ||
| An Act to Confer Civil Rights on Freedmen, and for Other Purposes, 1865 (Mississippi Black Code) | ||
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | ||
| Attacking the Freedmen’s Bureau Poster, 1866 | ||
| African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Pastor S. B. Williams Reports Atrocities to North Carolina Governor Holden, 1869 | ||
| Albion W. Tourgée’s Letter to Senator Joseph C. Abbott, 1870 | ||
| Congressman Robert B. Elliott’s Speech in Support of the Civil Rights Act, January 1874 | ||
| Image: Thomas Nast, “The Union As It Was,” 1874 | ||
| Congressman James T. Rapier’s Speech in Support of the Civil Rights Act, February 1875 | ||
| Civil Rights Act, 1875 | ||
| Strauder v. West Virginia, 1880 | ||
| Civil Rights Cases, 1883 | ||
| Frederick Douglass, “Speech on the Civil Rights Cases,” 1883 | ||
| Louisiana Separate Car Act, 1890 | ||
| Mississippi Constitution, 1890 | ||
| Anna Julia Cooper, “A Voice from the South,” 1892 | ||
| Frederick Douglass, “The Blessings of Liberty and Education,” 1894 | ||
| Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895 | ||
| Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 | ||
| Images from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 1866–1900 |