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Carolina. Its majority membership. Intimidation of the

electorate. State aid to railroads. Misuse of public funds.

An experiment in creating a race of tenant farmers. A

corrupt land commission. Expensive financiering. Ex-

travagance of the legislature. The color line in judicial

matters. A reform movement.

XII CIVIL ADMINISTRATION IN GEORGIA, ALA-

BAMA AND FLORIDA

PAGES

339-367

Inauguration of the new government in Georgia. Ejection

of negro members of the legislature. The Senators re-

fused seats in Congress. The legislature rejects the

Fifteenth Amendment. Its members required to take a

test oath. Military rule reëstablished. State railroad aid.

School fund corruption. Georgia's senators admitted.

Democrats secure the legislature. The Alabama legis-

lature. The worst element in control. Pernicious polit-

ical legislation. Manipulation of the election returns.

Reckless railroad endorsement. Bribery of legislators.

Financial disaster of Mobile and other towns. Education

and the school system. A dual legislature. Alabama's

dark period. The situation in Florida. General corrup-

tion among officials. The influence of Bureau Commis-

sioner Osborn. Prominence of the negro in politics. A

race war. Railroad legislation. Misuse of public funds.

The rule of the Osborn Ring. Factional quarrels among

the radicals.

The Arkansas government of 1868. Refunding the public

debt. Two governors. A new constitution. The Demo-

crats gain control. Results of reconstruction. Membership

of the Louisiana legislature. How Governor Warmoth

secured his power. The Metropolitan Police. Education.

Legislation as to the levees. Extravagant railroad legisla-

tion. Corruption among officials. Breach between Gov-

ernor Warmoth and the Federal officials. Federal troops

intervene. The election of 1872. Two legislatures. Im-

peachment of Warmoth. Riotous disturbances. Repu-

diation of the State debt. The White League. Battle in

New Orleans. The whites in control. Federal interven-

tion.

CHAPTER

XIV THE LAGGARD STATES-VIRGINIA, MIS-

SISSIPPI, AND TEXAS

PAGES

383-403

The

Virginia under the provisional government. The dis-

qualification clause the stumbling block to readmission.

Congress passes a compromise measure. A constitution

adopted. Virginia restored to Federal relations.

provisional government in Mississippi. A constitution

adopted. The disqualification clauses defeated. The

State restored to representation in Congress. Special pro-

visions of the act granting representation. The legisla-

ture and its measures. The negroes demand the public

offices. Rivalry for the governorship. The new adminis-

tration. Pearl River scandal. Disturbances in Vicksburg.

The white voters gain control. Federal control reassumed.

Continuation of the military authority in Texas. Fric-

tion between the governor and the military commander.

The reconstruction government. A corrupt legislature.

The State debt and taxation. Synopsis of the reconstruc-

tion of the Southern States.

XV THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU AND ITS AD-

JUNCTS

405-430

The scope of the Freedmen's Bureau. Its term and au-
thority extended. Relief work. Occupation of abandoned
lands. Experiment of freedmen's colonies. Regulation of
labor. Aid to education. Influence on the judicial system.
Freedmen's courts. Abolition of the Bureau. Charges
against the integrity of its administration. The Bureau in
politics. Work of the Union League. The Freedmen's
Savings and Trust Company. Douglass becomes its presi-
dent. Congress closes the institution. General results of
the operations of the Bureau.

XVI THE KU KLUX KLAN

431-451

Origin of the organization. The Pulaski Den and its ob-

jects. Source of its influence. Its methods. Changed or-

ganization of the various dens. Rule of the Klan. Obli-

gation of its members. Organization of the Knights of the

White Camelia. Creed and jurisdiction of the order.

Charge to members. Methods of operation of the Ku

Klux. State laws against the order. Its methods imitated.

The order is dissolved. Anti-Ku Klux legislation by

Congress.

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XVII RECONSTRUCTION IN THE CHURCH ES

PAGES

453-481

Attitude of the churches toward slavery. Separation of

the Methodist Church, North and South. The Southern

Baptist Convention is organized. The Southern Presby-

terians form the Confederate General Assembly. The

Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Religious devotion

conspicuous among Confederate leaders. Church work in

the field. Patriotism of the churches, North and South.

Northern churches attempt the reconstruction of the South-

ern. Church work among the negroes. Work of the

American Missionary Association. The General Confer-

ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1866.

The colored Methodist Episcopal Church. Reconstruction

of the Southern Baptist Church. Accessions to the South-

ern Presbyterian Assembly from the Border States. Grad-

ual drawing together of the sectional churches.

XVIII THE BORDER STATES.

483-502

Conditions and relations of the Border States. West

Virginia and Tennessee added during the war. Adoption

of the Thirteenth Amendment except by Kentucky. Eman-

cipation adopted in Missouri and West Virginia. Mary-

land during Reconstruction. West Virginia's radical laws.

Reaction toward conservatism. Kentucky restores political

rights to Confederates. Refuses to adopt the Thirteenth

and Fourteenth Amendments. The course of the strug-

gle in Tennessee. Minority control by the eastern counties.

Brownlow's administration. Reconstruction in Missouri.

The constitution of 1864. Proscriptive provisions. Rail-

road legislation. The Radicals overthrown. General

view of reconstruction of the Border States.

XIX RECONSTRUCTION AT THE NORTH.

503-526

A glance at conditions and progress in the two sections.

The Louisiana Purchase and the slavery question. The

Missouri Compromise. Question of slavery in the terri-

tories acquired from Mexico. The abolition movement

gains. The Dred Scott case. Economic conditions and

the shaping of the sections. Political effect of early re-

verses in the War. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

Financial measures. Conscription. Political importance

of Grant's successes. Congress proposes the Thirteenth

Amendment. Citizenship and suffrage. Admission of

Nevada. Agitation as to negro suffrage. Congress pro-

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poses the Fifteenth Amendment. Influence of the West
on nationalism.

XX A CENTENNIAL SETTLEMENT

PAGES

527-557

Foreign affairs during the Reconstruction period. The

development of the transcontinental railway. Economic

readjustment at the South. Diversion of the shipping trade

to the North and East. Development of coal and iron

mining and cotton manufacture in the South. Migration

to the Southwest. The Centennial Exposition. Its in-

fluence for nationalism. Principal Reconstruction meas-

ures. New party alignments. The Republican party's

policy after Reconstruction. The Liberal-Republican

movement. Restoration of the white men's power in

Southern States. A Democratic reaction. The Hayes-

Tilden contest of 1876. Disputed returns for South Caro-

lina, Florida, and Louisiana. Canvass of the votes in these

The Electoral Commission decides in favor of

Federal troops leave the South. White rule re-

States.

Hayes.

stored.

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

559-567

569-571