Reconstruction Era - Postwar Society

Reconstruction Era - Postwar Society

Do you know who I am?

Fill in the Blank

I did not accept _______ ________ as political equals.

Poll

William T. Sherman was a Confederate soldier with no rank.

• No he was a Confederate General

• No he was not a soldier at all

• No he was a Union General

• No he was a Union soldier

Postwar Violence

Riots broke out in New Orleans in 1866

New Orleans Massacre

• 130 African Americans marched in favor of the Louisiana Constitutional Convention

• Mayor organized a mob to block them from getting to the convention

• Unarmed African American citizens were shot and killed trying to run for safety

• At least 200 African American veterans of the Union Army were killed

Fill in the Blank

The name of the secret organization that was developed to harass, intimidate, and physically harm African Americans.

Radical Reconstruction Brings Change

• Civil Rights Act of 1866 and Fourteenth Amendment protected African American Voting Rights

• In the 1860s and 1870s African Americans in both the North and South voted in large numbers for Republican candidates

• In 1870 most of the Southern states were controlled by the Republican Party

• Across the South hundreds of African Americans were elected to state and local offices