Instructor ESources PowerPoint Presentation Chapter 6 Republicanism and Reunion

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Instructor E-SourcesPowerPoint Presentation
Chapter 6Republicanism and Reunion

• The History of Texas
• Harlan Davidson, Inc.

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Learning Outcomes (6)

• Comprehend the political nuances that
  Republicanism Reunion represented in Texas.
• understand the Reconstruction process that Texas
  other southern states experienced.
• cite key differences in political philosophies
  between the Republican Democratic parties.
• recognize the implications of Emancipation
  Reconstruction on the lives of a newly-freed
  people.

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Chapter 6 Republicanism Reunion

• Aftermath of the War
• Division confrontation
• Disintegration of Army
• government
• Texas June 19, 1865
• Emancipation declared
• Juneteenth

The 9th Cavalry at Ft. Davis
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Reconstruction

• Presidential Reconstruction
• Texas provisional government
• Constitutional convention
• Ex-confederates in power
• Freedmens status
• black codes
• Resistance to Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen,
• Abandoned lands
• Resistance to occupation army

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Reconstruction

• Congressional Reconstruction
• Presidential Reconstruction overturned
• Federal Reconstruction Acts, 1867
• General Phil Sheridan takes command
• Radical Reconstruction
• Republicans take charge in Texas
• Election of 1869 the Davis Administration
• Freedmen participate
• Reaction sets in
• Violence
• Ku Klux Klan

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Freedmen in Reconstruction

• The Freedmens Bureau
• Bureau agents
• Bureau-run schools
• Black politicians
• George T. Ruby the Union League
• Senator Matt Gaines
• Black voter registration
• The freed people
• Redefining roles
• Racism

Uncle George Glenn
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Watercolor of Matt Gaines and George T. Ruby in
the Senate ChambersTwelfth Legislature, 1870
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Demorcrats Regain Control

• The Redeemer election of 1873
• Governor Coke
• Texas and the New South vision
• The Constitution of 1876
• A return to limited government
• Austerity in government
• Debating the Grangers
• reflecting the 1876 climate of opinion

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Key Words Terms (6)

• "Juneteenth"
• ab initio
• Texas v. White
• "scalawags"/ "carpetbaggers"
• Reconstruction politics
• Presidential
• Congressional
• Black Republican (Radical)
• Freedmen's Bureau

• Union League
• George T. Ruby
• Matt Gaines
• Ku Klux Klan in Texas
• Constitution of 1869
• Edmund J. Davis, "Radical Republican"
• Constitution of 1876