1. Before we start… Homework: Vocabulary Word, definition, and picture/symbol – Black Codes- Segregation – Sharecropping- redeemers – Jim Crow Laws- Plessy v. Ferguson – Poll tax – Grandfather Clause

2. You are a newly freed citizen. (thanks to the 13 Amendment!) What do you need or want to do/get/find? List the 5 most important things.

3. Agenda Wants and needs Poor Southerners and African Americans – Gains – struggles How effective is Reconstruction?

4. Gains Citizenship Voting Education Repeal of Black Codes

5. Challenges and Struggles Voting and Rights – Ku Klux Klan – Jim Crow laws – Segregation – Civil Rights Act of 1866; Civil Rights Act of 1875 – Poll tax – Literacy test – Grandfather clause

6. Challenges and Struggles Economy – Housing and jobs – Lack of savings and assets – Sharecropping – Tenant farming – Good or bad?

7. Will Reconstruction last? Vote