Reconstruction
ETHS Content Essays, Primary Sources and Student Activities
1878 Memphis Yellow Fever Epidemic
Key Words: yellow fever, mosquitoes, Memphis, quarantine, Martyrs of Memphis
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Key Words: Freedman's Bureau, impeachment
The Ku Klux Klan and Vigilantism
Key Words: Ku Klux Klan, Pulaski TN, Reconstruction, freedmen, Nathan Bedford Forrest, voting rights, Radical Republicans
1870 Constitution and Black Legislators
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