Era+Five

= Era Five: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 - 1877)  =

William Lloyd Garrison, “To the Public,” 1831

Truisms by William Lloyd Garrison, 1831

“Kidnapping a Free Negro to be Sold into Slavery,” image, 1834

Angelina Grimké’s “Appeal to the Christian Women of the South,” 1836

Angelina Grimké Weld’s Speech at Pennsylvania Hall, 1838

Antislavery Convention, c.1845

Fugitive Slave Act, 1850

Samuel A. Cartwright, “Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race”, 1851

DeBow’s Review, “The South and Her Remedies,” 1851

Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” 1852

Excerpt from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852

Frederick Law Olmstead, A Journey in the Seaboard States, 1856

Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857

Thomas R. R. Cobb, “An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery, 1858”

James Henry Hammond, “The Mudsill Speech,” 1858

Abraham Lincoln, “House Divided Speech,” 1858

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">William Seward, “On the Irrepressible Conflict,” 1858

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">John Brown

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Henry David Thoreau, "A Plea for Captain John Brown," 1859

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Governor Hammond’s Letters on Slavery, 1860

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">James D. B. DeBow, “The South’s Power of Self-Protection,” 1860

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Abraham Lincoln’s “Cooper Union Address,” 1860

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Republican Party Platform, 1860

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hinton Rowan Helper, The Impending Crisis, 1860

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">South Carolina’s Declaration of Secession, 1860

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Confederate Constitution, 1861

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jefferson Davis’ First Inaugural Address, 1861

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, 1861

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Alexander Stephens, “The Cornerstone Speech,” 1861

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Conscription Act, 1862 (Confederate)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Homestead Act, 1862

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Morrill Act, 1862

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Conscription Act, 1863 (Union)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Joshua Chamberlain’s Description of Gettysburg

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Gettysburg Address, 1863

Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?", 1863

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, 1865

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Robert E. Lee’s Farewell Address to His Troops

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mississippi Black Code, 1865

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The 13th Amendment

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tennessee Black Codes, 1865-1866

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Freedmen’s Bureau Report on the Memphis Race Riots of 1866

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The 14th Amendment

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Samuel J. May, Some Recollections of our Anti-Slavery Conflict, 1869

Black Friday, 1869

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The 15th Amendment

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The Credit Mobilier Scandal, 1872

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Civil War Photographs of Mathew Brady

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Political Cartoons of Thomas Nast

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Other Civil War and Reconstruction Era Political Cartoons