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Important terms to know:
- Black Codes
- Carpetbagger
- 1866 Civil Rights Act
- 1875 Civil Rights Act
- Election of 1876
- "Forty Acres and a Mule"
- Freedmen's Bureau
- impeach
- Ku Klux Klan
- Presidential Reconstruction
- Radical Reconstruction
- Sea Islands (Georgia)
- sharecropping
- "Solid South"
- 14th Amendment
- 15th Amendment
What caption would you give this painting?
Detail of right-hand corner:
Free World Seppie
Wilmette
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Consider the perspective of this author while you view the Currier and Ives chromolithograph, “A Cotton Plantation on the Mississippi”. Then consider the viewpoint of Frederick Douglass, as expressed in his Narrative.
Why were some Northerners so hostile to freeing the enslaved people of the South?