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. 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. Voting/ Political Power

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

7. Reunification of families

8. Education

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

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

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

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

13. What is the message?

14. 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)?

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

19. 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?