How threatening to former Confederates were the measures taken by Radical Republicans to political mobilize the black population of the South?

500 wordsTopic Open to themes this week you find interesting or salient.Consider: the full significance of the Civil War to the four lenses we’ve focused on throughout the class. Must directly engage no less than three materials from this week. using the sources I provide develop an argument and answer these questions . As you complete this reading, ask yourself how all the various ways of remember the Civil War and executing reconstruction came together in the years immediately after the cessation of hostilities. How threatening to former Confederates were the measures taken by Radical Republicans to political mobilize the black population of the South? How crucial were the years that Radical Republicans had the power to guide Reconstruction? In what ways did these Republicans transform the nation into a polity where the idea of nation was paramount over the rights of the states? How did Radical Reconstruction set the stage for a powerful backlash against African-Americans throughout the South? Now, why does all this matter and how are the Black Codes an attempt at slavery-in-everything-but-name? Look at the last section of the entire document: “Be it further enacted, that if any freedman, free Negro, or mulatto convicted of any of the misdemeanors provided against in this act shall fail-or refuse, for the space of five days after conviction, to pay the fine and costs imposed, such person shall be hired out by the sheriff or other officer, at public outcry, to any white person who will pay said fine and all costs and take such convict for the shortest time.” This is the genesis of the “convict-lease” system that existed in the South until the 1920s (yes, into the twentieth century!). What is the significance of this section and how does it place the authorities and the southern sheriff system at the heart of attempting to preserve control over African-Americans? With this background in mind, read the text with an eye for the political side of Reconstruction. How does this Act preserve the power of Congress to guide Reconstruction? Is the barrier for re-entry laid out in this document high as the Radicals wanted or low like Lincoln and Johnson wanted? How does this document make the South a political and economic colony of the victorious North?