Identifier: historyofuniteds05mowr (find matches)
Title: A history of the United States for schools; including a concise account of the discovery of America, the colonization of the land, and the revolutionary war
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Mowry, William A. (William Augustus), 1829-1917 Mowry, Arthur May, 1862-1900. F. Cresson Schell, illustrator
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Silver, Burdett and co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ey be classed as terri-tories conquered by the Union armies? These questions were neveranswered, though the method of reconstruction seems to imply thelatter. A less theoretical question was, whether the Southern States,under their former leaders, should be allowed to take their old placein the Union. 22 53^ DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATION. (1865-1868 646. Freedmen.—The Presidents plan was to permit the Statesto send senators and representatives to Congress, as soon as theyrepealed their acts of secession and ratified the Thirteenth Amendment. The action taken by the new governments in these reorganizedStates in regard to the freedmen prevented Congress from acceptingthis plan. The South had no faith that the negro would be willingto labor except under compulsion, and therefore many of the Statespassed laws compelling the freedmen to work. The penalties pro-posed were very severe, and many Northern leaders felt that the con-dition of the negro would be practically as bad as under slavery.
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Laying an Atlantic Cable. 647. Reconstruction. — In spite of the Presidents opposition, Con-gress passed certain Acts of Reconstruction, as they were called.These provided that the States should be admitted to Congress onlywhen new governments should be formed, of a character whichwould pledge safety to the negroes. For this purpose. Congress putthe districts under military governors, and voted that freedmenshould be allowed to assist in forming the new governments.When these were formed and had ratified the Fourteenth Amend-ment, the States might be again represented in Congress, 1865-1870) RECONSTRUCTION. 339 648. The Fourteenth Amendment. — In 1866 Congress passed an-other amendment, which was ratified by three-fourths of the States,and became a part of the Constitution, July 28th, 1868. Thisamendment consisted of several distinct parts. It declared that noState should deprive any citizen of his rights; that those who, havingonce sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United S

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