1. Reconstruction and the New South

2. Republicans and Reconstruction
Freed slaves could now vote. Who would they vote for?
Scalawags and Carpetbaggers
Revels- Mississippi first senator
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
scalawags- southerners whoo supported reconstruction- some will invest in it if they had money
carpetbaggers- northerners who come to the south to help reconstruction- usually investing their money in the south
Did not support women’s suffrage

3. “New South” New public school system Corruption- not just in the South
Freed people
Substandard housing and poor food, in return for labor
Schools and Churches
Economy- land
Sharecropping and tenant farming
New public school system- freedman’s bureau
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

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
Sharecropping/share-tenancy/tenant farming- former slaves would “work” for the land owners and be “rented” a piece of land and tools. Once the crop was brought in the land owners would take a portion, plus what was owed for rent and the tools, leaving the freedman with almost nothing- or where he owed the landowner – creates the debt peonage system
KKK was created in response to enforcement acts which were created to ensure freedman the right to vote- 15th amendment could be enforced by the military.
Black codes- slave codes redesigned to try to keep freedman in a lower status,

5. End of Reconstruction Grant’s Administration
Economic- 1873, bank failed=bad economy=preoccupied Northerners
Presidential Election of Rutherford B. Hayes (R) and Samuel Tilden (D)
Compromise of 1877
officially ended 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
Nadir= worst time in history
Voting used different “legal” methods to keep black southerners from voting
Jim Crow Laws- separate but equal
Plessy V ferguson declared separate but equal constitutional creating the reign o jim crow laws in the south until the 1960s

8. Florida and Reconstruction
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