OUTLINE
Reconstruction in Texas
I. Popular
perceptions of Reconstruction
A. carpetbaggers
B. scalawags
C. freedmen
D. Southern
Democrats
II. Realities
A. Presidential
Reconstruction, June 1865-March 1867
1. the
Lincoln-Johnson plan
2. the
plan put into motion (with A.J. Hamilton as provisional governor)
a) loyalty
oaths taken
b) presidential
pardons for Confederate officials and planters
c) new
state constitution written
d) 13th
amendment ratified
e) elections
held
3. problems
with the plan
a) election
of ex-rebels
(1) James
Throckmorton, governor
(2) Oran
Roberts & David Burnet, senators
(3) rebels
at all levels of government
(4) senators
and congressmen refused their seats
b) the
Black Codes
(1) labor
contracts
(2) apprenticeship
laws
(3) vagrancy
laws
(4) corporal
punishment
c) Presidential
Reconstruction overturned
B. Congressional
Reconstruction, March 1867-April 1870
1. Congress’s
plan: the Reconstruction Acts
2. the
plan put into motion (with Hamilton removed from office & E.M. Pease
appointed governor)
a) military
districts
b) 14th
Amendment ratified
c) new
state constitution written (finished in early 1869)
d) black
males voting
e) test
oath required for voting (disfranchises 10,000; 60,000 still can vote)
f) elections
held
3. results
of the plan
a) constitution
gives state government new powers
b) Black
Codes abolished
c) Republican
party comes to power
C. Radical
Reconstruction, April 1870-January 1874
1. Edmund
J. Davis
a) a
despot?
b) a
spendthrift?
c) a
corrupt tool of big business?
2. the
Republican agenda
a) restore
law and order
b) public
education
c) promote
economic development (railroads)
III. Redemption
A. Ex-Confederates
return to politics
B. Democratic
propaganda
C. the
Ku Klux Klan
D. Democrats
win at the polls
1. the
legislature redeemed, 1872
2. Davis
defeated by Richard Coke, December 1873
E. the
status of African Americans
1. sharecropping
2. political
rights circumscribed