1. Reconstruction
Social Effects

2. Amendments during Reconstruction
13th Amendment- Ended the practice of slavery 14th Amendment- Granted freed people citizenship 15th Amendment- Protected a citizen’s right to vote regardless of race

3. Emancipated Slaves and the Freedmans’ Bureau
To help newly freed slaves, the Freedman’s Bureau helped them find shelter, food, and education

4. Jim Crow South Begins…
South still aimed to limit the rights of African Americans
Black Codes- laws designed to limit African Americans rights
Jim Crow Laws- established segregation in the South

5. Ku Klux Klan

6. Rebuilding Southern Economy
Sharecropping- Poor farmers would borrow land from landowners and “share” the crops
Keeps poor people and freed blacks in debt
Landowning rich maintained control

8. End of Reconstruction
In the Election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden tie in the electoral college.
Compromise of Rutherford B. Hayes is made president and ends Reconstruction
and in exchange…
a. Military protection must leave South
b. Government must build a southern transcontinental railroad
c. Ex-confederates allowed into government again