1. Reconstruction

2. Republicans and Reconstruction
two black senators and fourteen black congressman will serve in the federal government
Many more will serve in state governments- SC had a black majority for a short time
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Freed slaves could now vote. Who would they vote for?
Scalawags and Carpetbaggers
Did not support women’s suffrage

3. “New South” New public school system Corruption- not just in the South
Helped lead to the Gilded Age
Freed people
Substandard housing and poor food, in return for labor
Schools and Churches
Economy- land
Sharecropping and tenant farming
Freedman bureau schools
Large amounts of land owned by very few- a lot of whites did not own land
by 1880 about 7% of souths land was ownded by blacks

4. Response to Radical Republicans
Sharecropping, share-tenancy and tenant farming
Perpetuated the system of slavery
Debt Peonage
Ku Klux Klan
Enforcement acts
Black Codes

5. End of Reconstruction Grant’s Administration
Corrupt
Economic- 1873, bank failed=bad economy=preoccupied Northerners
Presidential Election of Rutherford B. Hayes (R) and Samuel Tilden (D)
Tilden won popular vote, but not enough of the electoral college.
results were disputed in Oregon, Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina
If all contested votes wen to Hayes he would win
Compromise of 1877
Hayes would win the election, if the north removed all military from the south officially ending reconstruction

6. Effect of Reconstruction
A legacy of Racism
The Economic Dependence of African Americans
The Freedman lacked education and political experience
White terrorism
Loss of Northern interest in Southern reconstruction

7. The Segregated South “Nadir” of race relations Voting Jim Crow Laws
Literacy Tests
Poll Taxes
Grandfather Clauses
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy s. Ferguson

8. Florida and Reconstruction
Began growing citrus, and more focus on cattle, timber and tourism.
270,000 people by 1880
19 of 53 members in state legislature were black in 1863
Jonathan C. Gibbs- Florida’s Secretary of State
Josiah T Walls- first black Floridian elected to US House of Representatives
Southern Democrats regained control in 1877
Debt peonage
Turpentine Camps
Turpentine camps- would have to pay for their bus ride to the camps and had to work in order to pay for that fare, as well as housing and food