Reconstruction (SS4H6)

Robert E. Williams, Photograph of group in cotton field in or near Richmond County, Georgia, late 19th century, Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898, Hargrett Library 

SS4H6 Analyze the effects of Reconstruction on American life

1. Describe the purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. 

2. Explain the work of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen’s Bureau). 

3. Explain how slavery was replaced by sharecropping and how freed African Americans or Blacks were prevented from exercising their newly won rights. 

4. Describe the effects of Jim Crow laws and practices.

Suggested Collections

• Ad Hoc Collection (Georgia Archives)

• African American Literature (Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library)

• America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia (Hargrett Library, Georgia Historical Society, and Atlanta History Center)

• Auburn Avenue Research Library Historic African American Education Collections (Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History)

• Civil Unrest in Camilla, Georgia, 1868 : Reconstruction, Republicanism, and Race (DeSoto Trail Regional Library System)

• First-person Narratives of the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library)

• Georgia Government Publications (University of Georgia. Libraries and University of Georgia. Map and Government Information Library)

• North American Slave Narratives (Harvard University Library, Hargrett Library, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

• Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898 (Hargrett Library)

• Samuel Hugh Hawkins Diary, January - July 1877 (Lake Blackshear Regional Library System)

• Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012 (Tubman African-American Museum)

• Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States (University of Georgia. Map and Government Information Library)

Suggested Searches (DLG)

• 13th Amendment

• Antislavery Movements

• Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 - 1877) Georgia

• 14th Amendment

• Equal Protection of the Laws (1850-1902)

• 15th Amendment

• Negro Men Voters

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Slavery

• Sharecropping

• Jim Crow

• Segregation

• Ku Klux Klan (19th century)

Suggested Searches (DPLA)

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Freedmen’s Bureau

• Slavery

• Sharecropping

• Jim Crow

• Segregation

• Ku Klux Klan (19th century)

Historic Georgia Newspapers

• The KKK in Georgia's Historical Press (19th century)

Chronicling America Newspapers

• Topics in Chronicling America - Nathan Bedford Forrest

• Ku Klux Klan in the Press (19th century)

• Sharecropping in the Press

Suggested DPLA Primary Resource Sets and Exhibits

• Blackface Minstrelsy in Modern America

• Exodusters: African American Migration to the Great Plains

• The Fifteenth Amendment

• Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

• Freedmen's Bureau

NGE Articles

• Black Legislators during Reconstruction

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Freedmen's Education during Reconstruction

• The Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction Era

• Lynching (in Georgia)

• Reconstruction in Georgia 

• Redemption

• Sharecropping

• Slave Narratives

• Tunis Campbell (1812-1891)

Georgia Public Broadcasting Resources

• Reconstruction: The Second Civil War

• Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

• Reconstruction and Black Education

Georgia Historical Society Resources

• Civil War and Reconstruction

• Impact of Reconstruction on Georgia

• Political, Social, and Economic Changes in Georgia During the New South Era

Posters and Postcards

• SS4H6 poster

• SS4H6 postcard