1. Louisiana Lottery

2. Lottery company 40,000 charity
The Louisiana ________________ was a private company set up to make money for the _____________ instead of the state.
The only benefit the state received was a small payment of about $__________ a year for the ______________ hospitals.
Lottery
company
40,000
charity

3. Democrats Republicans elected Governor Nicholls
3. It gained political influence over the radical _______________ and later the _______________ by contributing large sums of money to _______________ officials. 4. Who challenged the Lottery?
Democrats
Republicans
elected
Governor Nicholls

4. CONVICT LEASE SYTSEM

5. Who leased the convicts? - local planters and industrialists
What was the reasoning behind beginning the convict lease system? (describe the system in your answer)
The state needed to earn money; state leased convicts to work outside the prison
Who leased the convicts?
- local planters and industrialists
3. What were they responsible for?
- housing and feeding the convicts

6. 4. State 2 observations about Picture 1. 5
4. State 2 observations about Picture What are the men working on in Picture 2? - road

7. 6. What type of work did the convicts do. Give examples
6. What type of work did the convicts do? Give examples. - the dirtiest work; building levees, roads, and railroads

8. 7. What were the living conditions like
7. What were the living conditions like? - brutal; mortality rate was high 8. State an observation about picture 3.

9. Constitutional Changes

10. CONSTITUTION OF 1868 ~ written by the Radical Republicans
Extended voting and civil rights to black males (14th and 15th amendments)
Established an integrated, free public school
Eradicated the Black Codes

11. CONSTITUTION OF 1879
~ written by Bourbon Democrats
~ Lottery officials pushed for it to be written to protect the lottery
~ lowered property taxes
~ did not include the equal rights amendment
~ separate public schools established (poorly funded)

12. CONSTITUTION OF 1898
~ written by Bourbon Democrats
~ voters had to take a literacy test, pay a poll tax, and own property (Disenfranchised the freedmen)
~ Grandfather clause established – those who were registered on January 1st, 1867, nor their son or grandson who is 21 now, shall be denied registration

13. Main Details DEMOCRATS PEOPLE’S Gained control after Reconstruction
BOURBONS
POPULISTS
Gained control after Reconstruction
Believed freedmen should have no rights
Most “reactionary” of the Democrats
Opposed public schools
Reduced spending on infrastructure
Small government
Started with the Farmers’ Union
Wanted
more government involvement for the common people
Government owned railroads
Changes in money and banking
Income tax
* Fused w/Republicans

14. JIM CROW LAWS What led to the development of the Jim Crow laws?
What were the Jim Crow laws designed to do? 
List examples of Jim Crow laws? 
The Supreme Court declared the Jim Crows _________________ with the Plessy v Ferguson case. 

15. 1. People in charge (Democrats) were not happy slaves were now freedmen
2. Isolate African Americans and place them in an inferior position to whites
3. Blacks and whites could NOT shake hands
- they could NOT eat together
- white motorists had the right away at an
intersection
4. Constitutional

16. PLESSY v FERGUSON Why was Plessy classified as "black"?
Why was Plessy arrested? 
Who is Ferguson in this case? 
The Supreme Court stated that racial segregation in public facilities was okay as long as they were ___________. 

17. “Separate but equal” 1. He was 1/8 black and that was Louisiana law
2. He refused to get up from the “whites only” car and go to the colored car
3. The judge in the case that found him guilt
4. equal
“Separate but equal”

18. Transcript of 14th Amendment to the U. S
Transcript of 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868)
AMENDMENT XIV
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; …
to reduce.; diminish