The New South and the Wild West

I. Reconstruction and the Legacy of Slavery

A. President Lincoln
B. 13th Amendment
C. President Andrew Johnson
D. Freedmen's Bureau
E. Land and Labor: Sharecropping
F. Ku Klux Klan
G. Radical Republicans
H. Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
I. Defining Citizenship: 14th Amendment
J.  Impeachment of Johnson
K.  Election of Grant
L. 15th Amendment

II. The End of Reconstruction

A. Election of 1876
B. Compromise of 1877

III. Expansion, Settlement, and the Wild West

A. Who Went West?
B. How Did They Get There?
C. What Happens When They Get There?
D.Wonders and Problems of Frontier Life
E. Life on the Frontier: Men, Women, Children, Ranchers, Gun Fighters, Cowboys, Indians

Terms:

Benjamin Singleton & the Exodusters
Homestead Act, 1862
Nat Love
"Teddy Blue" Abbott
Jesse James
John Wesley Hardin

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Last Update: January 2004