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Freed Women In Reconstruction Era (Antebellum (before the war) Southern…
Freed Women In Reconstruction Era
What did 19th Century people typically believe?
small government
little taxation
in 1865 only 5 states in North granted full voting right to black men
between 1865-1868 6 states defeat state constitutional amendments to grant voting rights to black men
Antebellum (before the war) Southern Society
White elite: large plantations; few men with lots of power
emerging middle class
"yeoman farmers": small scale farmers
free blacks
slaves
"white trash": poorest of the poor white people
What did women do upon gaining freedom?
marriage
feme covert/ feme sole
legal terms
labor and mobility
negotiating changing social norms
Time Line
wartime reconstruction plans
13th amendment ratified 1865: free slaves
presidential reconstruction (Johnson); 1866-1867
Black Codes: control over the free labor of African Americans; congress will react
14th Amendment
defines citizenship
birth and naturalization
naturalization law (1790): "free white persons"
promotes black male suffrage