1. Radical Reconstruction and freedmen
Did Radical Reconstruction ( ) succeed or fail in protecting/ assisting freedmen?
What were the most significant changes in the lives of freedmen?

2. Radical Reconstruction….
Freedmen’s Bureau in South to assist freedmen
14th Amendment- equal citizenship
15th Amendment- can’t deny vote based on race
Reconstruction Act- South under military control…

3. What is a “carpetbagger”?
What is meant by “bayonet rule”?
What is the message of this cartoon?
CARPETBAG AND
BAYONET RULE
THE SOLID
SOUTH

4. Under Reconstruction, Republican government control the South:
scalawags- white southern “traitors” who cooperate with the Republican governments
Carpetbaggers- northern Republicans who move into the south
Freedmen- former slaves (90% Republican)
1867 cartoon- military
registering freedmen
to vote
1868 cartoon
1872 cartoon

5. How did things change for former slaves during Reconstruction?
Alone or with a partner, read the assigned sections of textbook (ch. 12, section 2)
Identify the main idea(s) in the section
Identify and bullet at least 3 supporting facts/details
(feel free to use a separate piece of paper if you’ve large handwriting)

6. Voting/ Political Power
(African Americans as Voters, p. 386
Politics and African Americans, p. 389)
MAIN IDEA(S):
AT LEAST 3 SUPPORTING DETAILS:

7. 90% of eligible AAs vote in the South
Voting/ Political Power
(African Americans as Voters, p. 386
Politics and African Americans, p. 389)
MAIN IDEA(S):
 15th Amendment- African American (AA) men register to vote for the first time
AT LEAST 3 SUPPORTING DETAILS:
 9/10 AAs vote Republican
90% of eligible AAs vote in the South
Face hardships- (threatened by employers)

8. 1865-1877- AAs involved in politics for the first time
Voting/ Political Power
(African Americans as Voters, p. 386
Politics and African Americans, p. 389)
MAIN IDEA(S):
 15th Amendment- African American (AA) men register to vote for the first time
AAs involved in politics for the first time
AT LEAST 3 SUPPORTING DETAILS:
 9/10 AAs vote Republican
90% of eligible AAs vote in the South
Face hardships- threatened by employers
Afr. Ams. held office in local, state, and federal gov’t
S Carolina- held a majority in state legislature
16 AAs elected to US Congress
Hiram Revels- 1st AA Senator 

9. Voting/ Political Power

10. Movement:
How many “moved”?
Those who did, where did they go?

11. Reunification of families

12. Education

13. RELIGION/ ORGANIZATIONS: African American churches, schools, volunteer groups form…

15. What is this a picture of? When do you think it was taken?

18. Sharecropping/ tenant farming
HW: Was this system fair?
How did it lead to a “cycle of debt”?
How is it like slavery? Different?

19. Closure
What are the 3 most important changes for freedmen during Reconstruction? Why?
Voting
Movement
Reunification of fams
Education
New organizations
Sharecropping

20. Did Radical Reconstruction (1867-77) succeed or fail in protecting/ assisting freedmen?

21. BB King interview BB King-
What was life like for sharecroppers in 1930s/40s Mississippi?
Positive?
Negative?

22. What is the message?

23. Political Cartoons Thomas Nast SOURCING-
Made cartoons for Harper’s Weekly, a NORTHERN magazine
SOURCING-
Do you think he’d be with President Johnson (lenient) or the Radical Republicans (punish the south, provide rights to freedmen)?

25. Shall I trust these men and not this man?

28. According to cartoons, how did attitudes towards
Freedmen change over the course of Reconstruction?

29. COMPROMISE OF 1877 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tknVMkVDUto
Why is it called the “the Great Betrayal”?
PREDICTION: What will happen with the return of “home rule” in the South?