1. SSUSH10 Part 2 Standards d through f

2. SSUSH10d: Explain Black Codes, Ku Klux Klan, and other forms of resistance to racial equality during Reconstruction Black Codes: Laws that Southern states passed following the Civil War that limited the freedoms of African Americans. For example, in Mississippi, blacks were forbidden from renting land anywhere except within cities. This prevented blacks from renting land on farms and making a living with crops People considered a meeting of two or more blacks to be a gang. Then they were tried in court.

3. SSUSH10d: Explain Black Codes, Ku Klux Klan, and other forms of resistance to racial equality during Reconstruction The most notorious of these anti-black groups was the KKKKKK It was a secret organization who dressed in white hoods and terrorized and intimidated African Americans as well as those whites who supported African American rights They continued their terror into the twentieth century and, while their objectives have changed, they still exist in places today

4. SSUSH10e: Explain the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in relation to Reconstruction An obscure rule was broken by President Johnson in 1868 when he violated the Tenure in Office Act (limited the President's authority to hire and fire government officials) by trying to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton for his work with Radical Republicans Led by Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, the House of Representatives voted to impeach Andrew Johnson for violating this law In the Senate, Johnson's opponents fell just one vote shy of successfully removing Johnson from the office of the Presidency

5. SSUSH10e: Explain the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in relation to Reconstruction

6. SSUSH10f: Analyze how the Presidential Election in 1876 and the subsequent compromise of 1877 marked the end of Reconstruction Democrats in the South allowed a Republican, Rutherford B. Hayes, to be elected in 1876 with a promise the restrictions on southern states would be loosened. As this ended Reconstruction, African Americans lost almost all of the ground that they had gained in the South as Jim Crow Laws required whites and blacks to use separate facilitiesJim Crow Laws Also, poll taxes and literacy tests were put in place to hinder African Americans from voting

7. The Failure of Reconstruction