1. 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
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2. 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!!!
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3. END OF RECONSTRUCTION

4. 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

5. 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
Targeted African Americans, Whites who helped
Rid Republican power
Violence

6. 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)

7. 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

8. 1872 Election Liberal Republicans nominate Horace Greeley
Democrats ALSO nominate Horace Greeley
Republicans- Grant (WIN’S RE-ELECTION!)
1872 Election

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Democrats in the South, returning power to white Democrats
“Redeemers”

13. Supreme Court decision stated 14th Amendment didn’t protect basic civil rights which were through their states
Slaughterhouse Cases

14. Supreme Court rules 14th amendment did not give the federal government the right to punish whites who oppressed blacks
U.S. v. Cruikshank

15. U.S. V. Reese
Supreme Court rules in favor of officials barring African Americans from voting
Poll tax
Literacy Test
Grandfather Clause

16. 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

17. IYO- Was Reconstruction a success or failure?

18. 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)