1. Daily Quiz 4/13
1. Mr. Smith is a wealthy plantation owner in Georgia, but he can no longer use slaves to farm his land. This is because of the….
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Freedmen’s Bureau
2. Thomas’s grandfather is a former slave, but he was allowed to vote in the election of This is because of the…

2. Life During Reconstruction

3. 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

4. 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

6. 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.

7. 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

8. Resistance to Change Prevent African American rights
Poll tax: required a tax to be paid in order to vote
Jim Crow Laws: laws that set up segregation
Separating whites and blacks
Ku Klux Klan: secret society that use fear and violence to display racism against blacks

9. Northerners move South
Following the war, many Northerners moved South
Carpetbaggers
Northerners who wanted to profit off the conditions in the South
Reconstruction of the South = lots of government money going to the South
Some Northern businessmen decided to head South to take advantage of the excess money