1. Aim: What were the immediate effects of Reconstruction?
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2. POLITICAL State White Citizens Freedmen SC 291,000 411,000 MS 353,000
436,000 LA
357,000
350,000 GA
591,000
465,000 AL
596,000
437,000 VA
719,000
533,000 NC
631,000
331,000

3. Political
African Americans took new roles : school superintends, mayors, representatives in the House.
They got the right to vote (suffrage)
NEW REPUBLICAN PARTY FORMS.

4. Politics
Scalawags: white men how have been blocked out of politics due to their wealthy neighbors.
Carpetbaggers: People from the North, moved to the South. - Opportunity for new jobs and new land.

5. Blacks in Congress

6. Republics did not support women’s suffrage at this time.

7. Social

8. Social New schools system Segregation: separate races
Radical republicans wanted integration (to combine white and black in the United States).

9. Social Many southern African Americans were illiterate.
Skilled men got jobs as carpenters, cooks, railroad workers, cooks, ….

10. Economic

12. Economic Building the Railroad and its impact:
- Create new jobs & fast and easy way to transport goods.
Sharecropping, Share tendency, and Tenant Farming

13. Violence Undermines Reform Efforts in the South:
KKK: Klu Klux Klan: group of white southerners who terrorized African Americans (burnt homes, schools, churches..)

14. The Federal Government Responds
Congress passed the Enforcement Acts :
It is a federal offense to interfere with African Americans and their rights.