1. The March to Freedom
... American citizenship. Like Lincoln, he believed that a virtuous democracy should be composed of free, independent small, producers and farmers. The Reconstruction was a lame attempt at a political, social, and economic revolution. Under the Reconstruction Act, Congress, by the summer of 1868, had readmitted to the Union Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. How representative ... to make their political fortunes. In the legislatures of Louisiana, South Carolina, and Mississippi, blacks gained complete control. In alarm, southern whites, seei...
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