Reconstruction
Positives during Reconstruction Public works programs Public Schools Education for African Americans (Freedmen's Bureau, Historically Black Colleges, dropping illiteracy rates) Growth in Baptist and Methodist Churches Politics (Hiram Revels)
Challenges during Reconstruction Sharecropping: farming in system in which freedmen were required to give a share of their crop to a landowner in exchange for a few acres to cultivate and farming tools. Tenant Farming: Renting land for cash and keeping all the harvest for themselves. Cycle of poverty
Challenges during Reconstruction
Challenges during Reconstruction Ku Klux Klan: founded as a social club for Confederate veterans in 1866. By 1868 the organization was in every state. Violent Terrorist organization Goal to restore white supremacy Killed thousands, burned schools, and burned churches.