Reconstruction, Black Suffrage, and the Rebirth of American Democracy
First Edition| ©2021 Bedford/St. Martin's; K. Stephen Prince
The documents in this collection illustrate the struggle over black voting rights during Reconstruction and the remarkable lengths to which African Americans have gone to secure these rights. Students will engage with a wide range of primary sources, constructing an argument based on the central
The documents in this collection illustrate the struggle over black voting rights during Reconstruction and the remarkable lengths to which African Americans have gone to secure these rights. Students will engage with a wide range of primary sources, constructing an argument based on the central question: What were the causes and consequences of the Reconstruction-era expansion of voting rights, and how did black suffrage change the face of American democracy?
Students are guided in their analyses of the documents by a learning objective, central question, historical background, source headnotes, source questions, project questions, and suggestions for further research. Through their work with these documents, they will gain a deeper awareness of the diversity of the American experience, a more complete understanding of the present in an historically-based context, an enhanced ability to read, interpret, assess, and contextualize primary sources, and practice explaining historical change over time.
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The documents in this collection illustrate the struggle over black voting rights during Reconstruction and the remarkable lengths to which African Americans have gone to secure these rights. Students will engage with a wide range of primary sources, constructing an argument based on the central question: What were the causes and consequences of the Reconstruction-era expansion of voting rights, and how did black suffrage change the face of American democracy?
Students are guided in their analyses of the documents by a learning objective, central question, historical background, source headnotes, source questions, project questions, and suggestions for further research. Through their work with these documents, they will gain a deeper awareness of the diversity of the American experience, a more complete understanding of the present in an historically-based context, an enhanced ability to read, interpret, assess, and contextualize primary sources, and practice explaining historical change over time.
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Reconstruction, Black Suffrage, and the Rebirth of American Democracy
First Edition| 2021
Bedford/St. Martin's; K. Stephen Prince
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Central Question
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Historical Background
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PRIMARY SOURCES
Black Delegation to the White House Calls for Civil and Political Rights
Frederick Douglass Appeals to Congress for Impartial Suffrage
Thaddeus Stevens Speaks in Favor of the Reconstruction Act and Black Suffrage
Harper’s Weekly Illustrates African American Suffrage
The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Hiram Revels Makes his First Speech in the U.S. Senate
Elias Hill Describes a Ku Klux Klan Attack
South Carolina’s Wade Hampton Addresses "The Race Problem"
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Reconstruction, Black Suffrage, and the Rebirth of American Democracy
First Edition| 2021
Bedford/St. Martin's; K. Stephen Prince
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K. Stephen Prince
K. Stephen Prince (Ph.D, Yale University) is Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Florida, where he specializes in the history of the nineteenth and twentieth century United States with an emphasis on the culture, society, and politics of the U.S. South. He is the author of Stories of the South: Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915, and is currently at work on a book-length study of Robert Charles and the New Orleans race riot of 1900.
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First Edition| 2021
Bedford/St. Martin's; K. Stephen Prince
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