Reconstruction Glossary

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People

Brownlow (William J.) - Houzeau (Jean-Charles) - Belgian journalist and astronomer, became the editor of the New Orleans Tribune in 1864, making it into a widely read journal whose influence spread far beyond Louisiana. The paper's program included black suffrage, desegregation, equality before the law, and redistribution of plantations to the freedmen. The paper still exists today. [1] Philbrick (Edward S.) - oversaw the first attempt at Reconstruction on the Sea Islands (

Institutions

Freedmen's Bureau -- created in March 1865, based on the reports of Owen, McKaye, and Howe (American Freedmen's Inquiry commission). Encouraged the notion of reparations, it had the power to rent 40-acre plots of confiscated land. It's full name: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.

Legislation

Wade-Davis bill -- 1864. Required delaying reconstruction in a State until more than half of the white men had taken the Ironclad Oath. Lincoln used a pocket veto to bury the bill, and was accused of "dictatorial usurpation" by the bill's authors.