Reconstruction
ETHS Content Essays, Primary Sources and Student Activities
1878 Memphis Yellow Fever Epidemic Teacher Packet
Key Words: yellow fever, mosquitoes, Memphis, quarantine, Martyrs of Memphis
Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee Teacher Packet
Key Words: Ku Klux Klan, Pulaski TN, Reconstruction, freedmen, Nathan Bedford Forrest, voting rights, Radical Republicans
Key Words: 1796 Constitution, 1834 Constitution, 1870 Constiution, Tennessee government, state capital
Tennessee's Constitutional Convention of 1870 and the Election of African-American Legislators Teacher Packet
Key Words: 1870 Constitution, segregation, Jim Crow laws, William Brownlow, Andrew Johnson, Sampson Keeble
The Freedman's Bureau and Fisk University
Key Words: Freedman's Bureau, Fisk University, Memphis, orphan, school