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1 Life During Reconstruction
( ) AIM: What was life like for African-Americans during Reconstruction? Do Now: What do you think a “carpetbagger” is?

2 Freedmen’s Bureau (1865) “carpetbaggers:” Northerners who moved South after the Civil War “scalawags:” Southern whites who supported Northern Republicans and Reconstruction Freedmen’s Bureau: gov’t org. to help ex-slaves

3 “Plenty to eat and nothing to do.”
Freedmen’s Bureau Seen Through Southern Eyes “Plenty to eat and nothing to do.”

4 Black Codes Purpose: stable labor supply Restore race relations (white > black). Forced many blacks to become sharecroppers [work the land for the farmer].

5 The KKK-“Invisible Empire of the South”

6 South vs. 15th Amendment Poll tax: tax just to vote
Grandfather clause: exempt from literacy test if your father or grandfather could vote before 1867…. What’s the problem? Literacy test: can you read and write?

7 What was life like for African-Americans during Reconstruction?

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