1. __________Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, after the American Civil War 2.___________a person from the northern United States who went to the South after the American Civil War to make money 3. _______ First African-American senator 4. _____________ landowners divided their land and gave each worker a few acres who would return part of their crop back to the landowner 5. ______________ system where farm workers supply own tools, keep their crop, and rent their land for cash 6. T/F: Andrew Johnson was impeached Happy Wednesday!
TODAY We are finishing Reconstruction PPT ON MY WEBSITE- TAKE NOTES Then you and your partner are going to be assigned a topic to create a 10 question KAHOOT! We will be playing lots for review and extra credit!!! TODAY
END OF RECONSTRUCTION
BLACK CODES (also known as Jim Crow Laws) Freedom…? The purpose of the Black Codes was to: Regain control over the freed slaves Prevent uprisings Ensure the continued supply of cheap labor Maintain segregation and white supremacy
KKK (Ku Klux Klan): social club founded in Tennessee, with growth turned into terrorist organization Goal: Restore white supremacy Prevent African Americans from making economic/political progress Killed thousands between 1868-1871 Targeted African Americans, Whites who helped Rid Republican power Violence
Enforcement Act (1871) Federal supervision of southern elections Gave the president power to use federal troops against the Klan … 1872 Congress rules these unconstitutional Enforcement Act (1871)
Scandal President Grant put his friends into office rather than those with ability Union Pacific Railroad: Republicans making profit Formed “Liberal Republican Party” hoping to out Grant
1872 Election Liberal Republicans nominate Horace Greeley Democrats ALSO nominate Horace Greeley Republicans- Grant (WIN’S RE-ELECTION!) 1872 Election
More Scandal Whiskey Ring (1875) Internal-Revenue collectors accepted bribes from whiskey distillers who wanted to avoid paying taxes Private Secretary: Babcock Grant refused to believe and helped him avoid conviction Secretary of War: Belknap Bribes from merchants who wanted to trade in Indian territory Secretary of Navy: bribes from shipbuilders Secretary of Interior: land speculators
Economic Turmoil Panic of 1873- TOO MUCH DEBT Cooke’s (invested in RR) banking firm went bankrupt Smaller banks close Stock market collapsed Economic Turmoil
Economic Turmoil Currency During war federal government issued greenbacks (not backed by gold) ADVICE: withdraw greenbacks Southerners/Westerners: issue MORE! 1875: Specie Resumption Act- put back on gold standard Economic Turmoil
Democrats in the South, returning power to white Democrats “Redeemers”
Supreme Court decision stated 14th Amendment didn’t protect basic civil rights which were through their states Slaughterhouse Cases
Supreme Court rules 14th amendment did not give the federal government the right to punish whites who oppressed blacks U.S. v. Cruikshank
U.S. V. Reese Supreme Court rules in favor of officials barring African Americans from voting Poll tax Literacy Test Grandfather Clause
Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) wins election of 1876 even after loosing the popular vote Democrats controlled the House of Representatives and would accept Hayes with the following conditions… 1. Withdrawal federal troops from Louisiana and South Carolina 2. Federal money to build a railroad from Texas to West Coast, and improve Southern bridges/harbors 3. Hayes would appoint a Southerner to the Cabinet *This officially ENDS RECONSTRUCTION Compromise of 1877
IYO- Was Reconstruction a success or failure?
Mass movement of African Americans from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas Was the first general migration of blacks following the Civil War. Desired to escape the Ku Klux Klan, the White League and the Jim Crow laws Exodusters (1879)