1. Reconstruction

3. Lincoln’s Funeral Car

6. Confederate Prison Camp

10. The Reconstruction Period
Reconstruction is the name given to the period of American history after the civil war.
It is also known as the “Tragic Era,” as blacks did not fully benefit from their freedom

11. The Reconstruction Period
14th Amendment was in 1866, which granted blacks equal civil rights
15th Amendment was in 1870, which granted blacks the right to vote

13. Voting Rights 3 ways that black Americans were stopped from voting:
Poll tax: A tax on every person that many poor blacks could not afford to pay.
Literacy Tests: People had to explain the meaning of a legal document in order to qualify to vote. Many blacks could not read and those who could almost always failed it because the tests that were given to them were more difficult
Grandfather Clause: If your grandfather was a slave, you lost the right to vote

14. Reconstruction State land in the South was opened up to black settlers
The Freedmen’s Bureau (1865) operated hospitals and schools for blacks.

15. Sharecropping
Many blacks did not want to work for wages because it kept them under the direction of whites and reminded them of slavery
A new agricultural system known as sharecropping emerged

16. Sharecropping
Plantation-owners broke up their estates into small parcels of land for sharecropping
In return for seed and equipment, the sharecropper would give the landowner a 1/3 or ½ of his crop
They could never raise enough cash to buy their own land and equipment, which trapped them into debt and poverty

22. Black Codes Southern rules Blacks could not own guns
They could only own property in the ‘black’ part of town (less desirable areas).
Not allowed to testify in court
They could be arrested for being rude to whites or for not having a job.

24. Black Convicts

25. The Ku Klux Klan

26. W.A.S.P
W = White
A = Anglo
S = Saxon
P = Protestant

27. KKK Formed in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1865.
A white underground terrorist group
Most of the leaders were former members of the Confederate Army and the first Grand Wizard was Nathan Forrest, a general during the American Civil War.
They wanted revenge for the defeat of the South

28. KKK
The group adopted the name Ku Klux Klan from the Greek word kuklos, meaning circle, and the English word clan.

29. KKK
They became known as the Invisible Empire as it grew and spread rapidly

30. KKK
Many important politicians, officials and even police officers supported them
Their main objective was to ensure white supremacy
It was a campaign of terror: they stole and destroyed black crops; stopped them from voting; threats of violence and murder
It was outlawed in 1872, but it emerged again in the early 20th Century and is still active today

31. Nathan Bedford Forrest
                                        

40. Lynching
When black people were accused of crimes (most were innocent) and were hanged and burned

47. Jim Crow Laws

48. Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow was a character in a 1828 song that was made popular by a white comedian, Thomas (Daddy) Rice
This song made fun of black people
The term Jim Crow was then used for a set of laws that were passed by the Southern States

49. Jim Crow
"Weel about and turn about And do jis so, Eb'ry time I weel about And jump Jim Crow."

51. Jim Crow
These laws discriminated against blacks and established segregation
Segregation meant that black people were kept separate from whites
Blacks were not allowed to use the same public facilities as whites and were treated as 2nd class citizens

56. Jim Crow Laws
Homer Plessey, a black man, challenged a Louisiana railroad company because they made him sit in a ‘coloured only’ carriage
The Supreme Court supported the railroad company and in 1896 declared the laws legal
This allowed the Southern States to make up more laws

57. Jim Crow Laws
Marriage between blacks and whites was illegal in some states
They were not allowed to use the same hotels, theatres and restaurants as whites
There were black only carriages on trains and they had to sit in the back of buses

58. Jim Crow Laws There was segregation in the armed forces
There were separate residential areas and schools
The American Red Cross kept black people’s blood segregated in blood banks until the 1940s.