DT Reconstruction

Reconstruction

Rebuildig the south and give freedmen full rights.  

Open Ended

What does the word "Reconstruction" mean?

Turn to a table partner and discuss it with each other.

Tenant farmers

• After Reconstruction ended, African Americans returned to plantations owned by whites, where they worked for wages or became tenant farmers, paying rent for the land they farmed.

Sharecroppers

• •Most tenant farmers ended up becoming sharecroppers. 

• paid a share of their crops to cover their rent and farming costs. 

• trapped them in poverty because they could not make enough money to pay off their debts and buy their own land.

  
  
  

Multiple Choice

Most tenant farmers were able to buy their own land.

• True

• False

“Black Codes”, were implemented by Southern states to reaffirm white supremacy
•       As a result of these racially discriminatory laws, the incarceration rate for African Americans was far higher than white American
It granted the U.S. government the right to sue people who violated these rights.

Multiple Choice

What were black codes?

• restrictions placed on African American/Former Slaves

• Separation of the confederate soldiers

Southern Resistance

• Southerners frustrated with Republicans running their states, they organized secret societies to undermine their rule.

• The largest group was the Ku Klux Klan.    

• white-robed Klan members rode in bands at night terrorizing African-Americans, White Republicans, and teachers in African American School

Multiple Choice

Who did KKK terrorise?

• freedmen

• Republicans

• Teachers from the north

• All 3

Disenfranchisement

• Disfranchisement- To deny privileges, protection, and especially the right to vote      

• Poll Tax- tax paid if you wanted to vote- Many African Americans could not afford to pay this tax

• Literacy Test- A test was given in order to register to vote. These tests were designed to make anyone fail if they wanted them to.

• Grandfather Clause- Since the imposition of those requirements also could impact the number of poor whites voting, Southern legislatures introduced the “grandfather clause," which exempted voters from the restrictions if their grandfathers had voted. This clearly eliminated the blacks.  

Multiple Choice

A literacy test means that freedmen had to take and pass a reading test before they can vote

• False

• True

Jim Craw laws

•   Jim Crow Laws: Laws separating the races in the South

• No marriage between blacks and whites

• Separate schools, streetcars, waiting rooms, rr, coaches, elevators, witness stands, drinking fountains, and public restrooms

Open Ended

Reconstruction in the south impacted blacks and whites in many ways. Explain how Reconstruction impacted Blacks in the south in this time period.

Use the following sentence stem to complete your answer.

Reconstruction in the south