US Constitutional History Since 1877

Bring the Major Problems to class on Monday, we’ll be looking at the cases and documents in Chapter 7, and at how the addition of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments profoundly changed both the Constitution and the nation.

Links and Resources for Discussion:
Interactive Reconstruction Timeline (Digital History/CHNM)
Frederick Douglass, “What the Black Man Wants,” 1865
Black Codes, 1865-1866
13th Amendment Proposals (Harpers Weekly)
14th Amendment (Harpers Weekly)
15th Amendment (Harpers Weekly)
Reconstruction Amendments (Gilder Lehrman Institute)
Thomas Kelly, 15th Amendment Celebration print, 1870 (Library of Congress/Wikimedia)
Slaughterhouse Cases (Oyez)
Bradwell v. Illinois (Oyez)
Minor v. Happersett (Cornell Law)
The Civil Rights Cases (Oyez)
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (PBS)
Douglas Blackmon, Slavery By Another Name