1. Reconstruction South

2. Changing Society
Confederates did not disappear, they still disliked the government
However, they lost power
New leadership takes over society
African Americans
Pro-Union southerners (scalawags)
Northerners

3. Economy of the South
The economy of South had focused around cash crops and slavery
No slavery = no labor to work
Southerners use sharecropping
System where workers use land and supplies of land owner
Workers then pay off debt to land owners with crops
Leads to a inescapable cycle of poverty
Many former slaves become sharecroppers and end up working for the same people who enslaved them

5. Discussion
In what ways did society in the South change following the Civil War?
How is sharecropping similar and different from the slavery/ cash crop system or the pre- Civil War South?
Predict how white Southerners might react to the societal changes of Reconstruction.

6. Resistance to Change
Many white southerners did not accept the idea that former slaves were equal
They worked to make sure that didn’t happen
Black codes: laws to keep African Americans from becoming equal

7. Resistance to Change
Ku Klux Klan: secret society that use fear and violence to display racism against African Americans
White supremacists
Laws were passed to keep African Americans from voting

8. Exodusters Headed west to the Great Plains and to Northern cities
Migration of African Americans out of the South
Headed west to the Great Plains and to Northern cities
Escape discrimination and lack of opportunity
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton of Tennessee supported the exodus of as many as 40,000 African Americans to Kansas