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03549aam a2200385Ii 4500 001 4755C66E4DCE11E89F5D1D5C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180502010046 008 161022t20172017paua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 159416276X 020 $a 9781594162763 035 $a (OCoLC)961159867 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d BDX $d YDX $d PLS $d OCLCO $d FEM $d IG$ $d FM0 $d UAB $d OCLCF $d IGA $d SILO 043 $a n-usu-- $a n-usu-- 050 4 $a E668 L45 2017 100 1 $a Leigh, Philip, $e author. 245 10 $a Southern Reconstruction / $c Philip Leigh. 264 1 $a Yardley, Pennsylvania : $b Westholme, $c [2017] 300 $a xviii, 229 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index. 505 0 $a Foundations of change -- Wartime reconstruction -- Ruination -- "Joshua" Johnson -- Carpetbagged -- Railroaded -- Corrupted -- Southern reparations -- Sharecropped -- Redeemed -- Divorced -- Racial adjustment -- Protracted consequences -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Monetary supply theory during reconstruction. 520 $a "The Reconstruction Era--the years immediately following the Civil War when Congress directed the reintegration of the former Confederate states into the Union--remains, as historian Eric Foner suggests, "America's unfinished revolution." But Reconstruction is more than a story of great racial injustice; it has left a complex legacy involving both blacks and whites, Southerners and Northerners, that is reflected today by the fact that many of the states with the highest rates of poverty were part of the former Confederacy. In Southern Reconstruction, Philip Leigh examines Federal wartime legislation in order to broaden our understanding of Reconstruction, revealing how it led to African Americans being used as political pawns, first to ensure continued Republican rule, and finally to be blamed for the South's hardships in order to draw poor whites away from Populism and back to the aristocratic white Democratic banner. Civil War laws, such as the Confiscation Acts, Pacific Railroad Acts, Homestead Act, Legal Tender Act, National Banking Act, and Veterans Pensions Acts, transformed America's banking system, built a railroad web, and launched the Gilded Age in the North and West, but it also created a dubious alliance between banks and government, sparked corruption, purposely depressed Southern industry, trapped Southern farmers--both black and white--in endless annual peonage cycles, and failed to provide lands for freedmen. While Reconstruction was intended to return the South to the Union, it could not be effective with laws that abetted Southern poverty, disfranchised many whites, fostered racial animosity to a point where lynchings and Jim Crow laws erupted, and lined the pockets of wealthy or politically well-connected business leaders outside of the region."--Jacket. 611 27 $a American Civil War (1861-1865) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01351658 611 27 $a Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01754987 650 0 $a Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 651 0 $a United States $x History $y Civil War, 1861-1865. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y 1865-1898. 651 0 $a Southern States $x History $y 1865-1951. 648 7 $a 1861-1951 $2 fast 941 $a 3 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006105621.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180703025708.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20180512010023.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4755C66E4DCE11E89F5D1D5C97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search