Introduction to "The Reconstruction Convention Simulation".

The cast of characters attending the convention.

The readings for your paper listed by belief.

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Readings for Belief 8:
Reconstruction should be organized and implemented on a state level.
 
June 14, 1862 Experiments in Reconstruction in Baltimore, Nashville, New Orleans; unionist sentiment in the post-war South.
April 1, 1865 Editorial evaluating the different types of Southern people and their views on Reconstruction.
August 12, 1865 Editorial says South hasn’t given up its old convictions.
August 26, 1865 Editorial says South, in defeat, still clings to belief she is are right.
September 2, 1865 Editorial on Presidential Reconstruction and federal authority versus state authority notes former Confederates elected to office and the danger of their repudiating the national debt.
September 9, 1865 Dangers of military government in the South.
October 7, 1865 A Tennessee gentleman’s letter to editor asserts rebel spirit alive in his state.
October 14, 1865 Editorial on Presidential versus state authority in determining suffrage.
October 14, 1865 Report of South Carolina State Convention. Alabama Convention establishes the rights of blacks to testify in courts and legalizes their marriages.
October 28, 1865 Confederate General Samuel McGowan on conditions under which South Carolina will return to the Union; ideas echo John C. Calhoun.
 
November 4, 1865 General Beauregard is to be superintendent of New Orleans and Jackson Railroad. Wade Hampton nominated for Governor of South Carolina.
November 11, 1865 Biography and illustration of Wade Hampton, governor of South Carolina.
November 18, 1865 The rebel generals Wade Hampton, Kershaw, Butler, Martin, and Brittan are members of the South Carolina Senate.
December 2, 1865 South Carolina legislature asks President Johnson to terminate "colored troops" in their state.

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