RECONSTRUCTION LESSON
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Reconstruction
Rebuildig the south and give freedmen full rights.
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How was the south being transformed?
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Tenant farmers
After Reconstruction ended, African Americans returned to plantations owned by whites, where they worked for wages or became tenant farmers, paying rent for the land they farmed.
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Sharecroppers
•Most tenant farmers ended up becoming sharecroppers. •They paid a share of their crops to cover their rent and farming costs. •Although sharecropping allowed African American farmers to control their own work schedule and working conditions, it also trapped them in poverty because they could not make enough money to pay off their debts and buy their own land.
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Most tenant farmers were able to buy their own land.
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Black Codes
A series of laws, called “Black Codes”, were implemented by Southern states to reaffirm white supremacy through again, differential treatment • As a result of these racially discriminatory laws, the incarceration rate for African Americans was far higher than white Americans • It granted the U.S. government the right to sue people who violated these rights.
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What were black codes?
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Southern Resistance
Southerners frustrated with Republicans running their states, they organized secret societies to undermine their rule. • The largest group was the Ku Klux Klan. • Created in 1866 by former Confederate soldiers in Tennessee. Hooded, white-robed Klan members rode in bands at night terrorizing African-Americans, White Republicans, and teachers in African American School
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Who did KKK terrorise?
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Disenfranchisement after Reconstruction
Disenfranchisement after Reconstruction • Disfranchisement- To deny privileges, protection, and especially the right to vote • Poll Tax- tax paid if you wanted to vote- Many African Americans could not afford to pay this tax • Literacy Test- A test was given in order to register to vote. These tests were designed to make anyone fail if they wanted them to. •
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Plessy vs Furgeson was about a black man who
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What were Jim Craw Laws?
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A literacy test means that freedmen had to take and pass a reading test before they can vote
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Plessy v Ferguson
1892 Plessy Vs. Ferguson – Separate but Equal (it was never equal) Jim Crow Laws • Aimed at separating the races in the South • Forbade marriage between blacks and whites • Separate schools, streetcars, waiting rooms, rr, coaches, elevators, witness stands, drinking fountains, and public restrooms
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Jim Craw laws
Jim Crow Laws • Aimed at separating the races in the South • Forbade marriage between blacks and whites • Separate schools, streetcars, waiting rooms, rr, coaches, elevators, witness stands, drinking fountains, and public restrooms
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