Life During Reconstruction (1865-1876) AIM: What was life like for African-Americans during Reconstruction? Do Now: What do you think a “carpetbagger” is?
Freedmen’s Bureau (1865) “carpetbaggers:” Northerners who moved South after the Civil War “scalawags:” Southern whites who supported Northern Republicans and Reconstruction Freedmen’s Bureau: gov’t org. to help ex-slaves
“Plenty to eat and nothing to do.” Freedmen’s Bureau Seen Through Southern Eyes “Plenty to eat and nothing to do.”
Black Codes Purpose: stable labor supply Restore race relations (white > black). Forced many blacks to become sharecroppers [work the land for the farmer].
The KKK-“Invisible Empire of the South”
South vs. 15th Amendment Poll tax: tax just to vote Grandfather clause: exempt from literacy test if your father or grandfather could vote before 1867…. What’s the problem? Literacy test: can you read and write?
What was life like for African-Americans during Reconstruction?