The First Vote: Confederate Army Veterans | Reconstruction 360

These men represent white Southerners who fought for the Confederacy and are strongly opposed to the idea of Black men voting. Changes that Radical Reconstruction brought about met with vicious resistance from many white Southerners.

Standards

• 8.4.CC Analyze continuities and change in the African American experience in the period of Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras within South Carolina.
• USHC.2.CX Contextualize the perspectives on the role of the federal government in securing natural rights during the period 1830–1877.