LECTURE 1: EMANCIPATION AND EQUAL RIGHTS

Lecture Outline

1. Civil equality in America.
2. The Civil War and after.
3. The 1870s and after.

Important Information, Terms, and Names from this Lecture

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • "natural law" and "natural rights"
  • "positive law"
  • Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
  • The Civil War Amendments: 13th Amendment (1865); 14th Amendment (1868); 15th Amendment (1870)
  • Ku Klux Klan (1866)
  • Freedmen's Bureau (1865)
  • "scientific racism"
  • Pres. Rutherford B. Hayes
  • Civil Rights Cases (1883)
  • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
  • "separate but equal" doctrine
  • Pres. Woodrow Wilson
  • disfranchisement

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