Resources:

Electronic Resources:

 

Overview & Point of View and general all topics

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/timeline.html

Library of Congress  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/civilwar.html information for all topics on Reconstruction

Timeline that provides a good overview of the era.
http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/amciv/ReconTLine.htm

Confederate Military History: This site gives the Southern point of view regarding Reconstruction. The introduction cautions the reader that there is a definite Southern bias in this material. The site also contains links to other "biased" information such as the Presidential Plan, Johnson's Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction and carpetbaggers.
http://www.civilwarhome.com/reconstruction.htm

This site gives a general overview of Reconstruction in outline form. It is a good
place for teachers and students to get a starting point. USE CHAPTER 6
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/index.htm

This site is a short thesis paper and provides a very good overview of issues related to Reconstruction.
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module11/#top

New Nation News. This is a very good chronology of the Reconstruction Era.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/impeach/Chronology.html

RESOURCE FOR MOST EVERYONE

http://www.course-notes.org/Vocab/chpt23.htm

Carpetbaggers & Scalawags


Electronic Encyclopedia information about Carpetbaggers. This page also has links to other pertinent topics for this project. http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/c1/carpetba.asp

Panic of 1873

PBS. This site is standard PBS quality and provides a good overview of the topic.
http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/amciv/ReconTLine.htm

This site provides a short chronological overview of the events that led to the financial crash.
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/narr3.html

Black Codes

Teaching History Online. Great pictures and very useful links for Andrew Johnson, Ku Klux Klan, Civil Rights Act of 1875, etc.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjimcrow.htm

African American History. Good general information and an index for other related information.
http://afroamhistory.about.com/homework/afroamhistory/library/weekly/aa121900a.htm

Freedmans Bureau

loc American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/civilwar.html

http://afroamhistory.about.com/cs/reconstruction/a/freedmensbureau.htm

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/timeline.html

University Of Virginia. This site has a series of pictures that are actually links.
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/

Burning of Richmond, 1865

Richmond National Battlefield Park. Great description of the event
http://www.nps.gov/rich/ri_bats.htm

Civil War Richmond. This site provides an evacuation letter  http://www.vmi.edu/archives/Manuscripts/ms0285.html

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/hh/33/hh33s.htm

Memphis Race Riots

Freedmen's Bureau. Primary source documents provide accounts of the event.
http://freedmensbureau.com/tennessee/outrages/memphisriot.htm

Black Holocaust. This site has good information on the race riots.
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Classroom/9912/lynchingera.html

Election of 1866 & Compromise of 1877

Digital History Pictures http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/section5/section5_21.html

HarpWeek. This site provides a lot of information about the event.
http://elections.harpweek.com/  or http://elections.harpweek.com/controversy.htm

PBS org  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_election.html

 

Military Reconstruction Acts, 1867

Teaching History Online. Good overview information and excellent links for topics such as 14th Amendment, Grant, Sumner, Radical Republicans, etc.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASreconstruction.htm

The Learning Network. Encyclopedic information with other links for Stanton and Tenure of Office Act.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0860648.html

Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

Teaching History Online. Good information and links for 13th Amendment, Andrew Johnson, Civil War, Lincoln etc.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASplan.htm

The Learning Nework. Encyclopedic information with an index for other related articles. Good links for lot of information on the Reconstruction.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0860645.html

Wade Davis Reconstruction Plan

Teaching History Online. Good information and links for Wade, Davis, Thadeus Stevens, Lincoln, etc.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASwadedavis.htm

Soldier's Gazette. Lots of good information and some interesting biographical information on some of the more obscure people of this era.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7600/june99.html

Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

Civil War Heritage Ring. Good overview information, links, and index but shows a Southern bias.
http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/AftermathAndReconstruction/johnsonsreconstruction.html

The Learning Network. Good information, plus links for other relevant information.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0860646.html

Civil War Aftermath

The Civil War Home Page. Lots of statistics and facts.
http://www.civilwarhome.com/casualties.htm

American Civil War. Great chart of casualties and commanders for each battle.
http://americancivilwar.com/cwstats.html

Interactive Civil War. Excellent photojournalism of Civil War damage & destruction. Great links for a wealth of Civil War Information.
http://www.swcivilwar.com/DestructionPhotos.html

Force Acts 1870-1871

Good textbook style information.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0819140.html

Short outline of what the Force Acts were

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=126

http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/resources/lessonplans/hs_lp_newscast.htm

Affirmative Action http://www.now.org/nnt/08-95/affirmhs.html or http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/hiring/affirmativeact.htm

NAACP http://www.africanaonline.com/orga_naacp.htm or  http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~naacp/history.html

Civil Rights Acts & Constitutional Amendments

Get most of information from this site on all three amendments.  Use the links for each Amendment and the general information.  http://www.historynow.org/12_2004/ask2b.html

Brief explanation of each amendment and the date it was passed.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/living/special_packages/constitution/6167180.htm

Lots of information on the Amendments  http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module11/intro_pop8.html

Civil Rights Act of 1875 http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/recon/civilrightsact.html or http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivil1875.htm or http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/activism/ps_1875.html

Civil Rights Act of 1866 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/activism/ps_1866.html

19th Amendment http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/nineteentham.htm

OLIVER HOWARD    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_O._Howard or http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/d_h/howard.htm

Herny Grady    http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2451  or http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5745/

Salmon P. Chase http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/SalmonPChase.htm or http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/spchase/chasexx.htm

Thaddues Stevens http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/ThaddeusStevens.htm or  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1851-1875/reconstruction/steven.htm or http://www.stevenstech.org/about/history.htm

Radical Republicans- A list of members and some info http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASradical.htm   or http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h127.html or http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/AftermathAndReconstruction/radicalrepublicans.html

Klu Klux Klan http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h412.html or http://www.iupui.edu/~aao/kkk.html or http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/AftermathAndReconstruction/birthofthekkk.html

Buffalo Soldiers http://www.buffalosoldier.net/ or http://www.buffalosoldiermuseum.com/

Ulysses S. Grant http://www.americanpresident.org/history/ulyssessgrant/ or http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ug18.html or http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/ug18/ or http://www.cr.nps.gov/logcabin/html/usg3.html

Martin Luther King  http://www.mecca.org/~crights/dream.html or http://www.nps.gov/malu/ or http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm

 

Biographies of all people

http://biography.com

Blanche K. Bruce
http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american
_history/725/Blanche_K_Bruce_
Mississippis_first_Black_Senator

Sharecropping

American History Online: This site provides links for visuals (see below) and primary sources.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=130
 

Electric Library. This site gives a good encyclopedic description of the term.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/searchpool.asp?target=@DOCTITLE%20sharecroppin

Gilder Lehrman Institute http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module11/intro_pop6.html

Civil Rights Act of 1964

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=97

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivil64.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1964_civil_rights_act.htm

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/blackhistory/#rights

http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page.cfm?ID=2379

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/laws/majorlaw/civilr19.htm

 

Andrew Johnson's Impeachment 

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module11/intro_pop10.html

Brown Versus Board of Education

http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/enlight/brown.htm or http://brownvboard.org/summary/ or http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/index.html

Plessy Vs. Ferguson

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=52 or http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/post-civilwar/plessy.html

 

OTHER WEBSITES

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/index.html PBS American Experience movie and Primary Sources

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=African%20American%20History A search engine that can be used.  Created by the library of congress.  It is full of primary sources. 

http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog12/feature/index.html -political cartoons

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us21.cfm -quotes of the time

Links for Harper's Weekly http://www.harpweek.com/  or http://www.harpers.org/ArchivePolitics.html or http://advertising.harpweek.com/

 

 

 

 

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