1. Reconstruction

2. Positives during Reconstruction
Public works programs
Public Schools
Education for African Americans (Freedmen's Bureau, Historically Black Colleges, dropping illiteracy rates)
Growth in Baptist and Methodist Churches
Politics (Hiram Revels)

3. Challenges during Reconstruction
Sharecropping: farming in system in which freedmen were required to give a share of their crop to a landowner in exchange for a few acres to cultivate and farming tools.
Tenant Farming: Renting land for cash and keeping all the harvest for themselves.
Cycle of poverty

4. Challenges during Reconstruction

5. Challenges during Reconstruction
Ku Klux Klan: founded as a social club for Confederate veterans in By 1868 the organization was in every state.
Violent Terrorist organization
Goal to restore white supremacy
Killed thousands, burned schools, and burned churches.