1. Warmup Vocab Sharecropper Ku Klux Klan Freedman’s Bureau Black Codes
Landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a hare of the crops/profits.
Ku Klux Klan
White supremacist terrorist group formed to terrorize Black Americans and their supporters in the South
Freedman’s Bureau
Provided food, education, legal aid, and other help to freed Black Americans after the Civil War.
Black Codes
Laws that severely restricted the rights of newly freed African Americans
Carpetbagger
Northerners who moved to the south to help with Reconstruction, were often corrupt

2. 4B: Back to Slavery

4. A New Hope Black Americans receive help from the Freedmen’s Bureau
Gave away confiscated land and animals
Provided education by opening up schools
Protected black voting rights during elections
Illiteracy falls from 90% to 80% ( )
9 black Congressmen elected to office
13 black state office holders
40,000 farms in South Carolina and Georgia

6. Limits to Freedom Jim Crow Laws Share Cropping Black Codes
Test administered to new black voters to block them from voting
Share Cropping
New legal slavery
Wealthy landowners would lend equipment to poor farmers
If the crop didn’t sell they would get further into debt, essentially working for free
Black Codes
Old slave laws that restricted Black Americans in the South
Many simply changed the word “slave” with “freedman”

7. SHARECROPPING

8. Limits to Freedom Southern Democrats 1876 (100 years of Murica!)
Loyal to the old South
Used Gerrymandering to regain control of the government
Drawing new districts to prevent Black Americans from being elected.
Gained control of the House of Representatives and reestablished Southern control over state governments.
1876 (100 years of Murica!)
Most Americans were ready to move on. They were tired of dealing with problems in America. They knew they were there, they just hoped they’d go away.

9. The End of Reconstruction
Republicans lose
Lost their control in the South
Were going to lose the Presidency
Got their candidate Rutherford Hayes elected by promising to withdraw troops form the South
Terrorism
Ku Klux Klan terrorized southern blacks and their supporters
Killed many people
Legislation
Civil Rights Act repealed
Enforcement Act of reduced
“The state cannot discriminate…but people can.”
African Americans flee to the North but are not well received.