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Chapter 2 - Reconstruction

from Part I - The Nineteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2022

Peter Temin
Affiliation:
Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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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 Together
The Economic History of a Segregated America
, pp. 54 - 90
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Reconstruction
  • Peter Temin
  • Book: Never Together
  • Online publication: 10 February 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030977.005
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  • Peter Temin
  • Book: Never Together
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030977.005
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  • Reconstruction
  • Peter Temin
  • Book: Never Together
  • Online publication: 10 February 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030977.005
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