The Reconstruction Lesson

Reconstruction

Rebuildig the south and give freedmen full rights.  

Multiple Choice

How was the south being transformed?

• creating many plantations

• creating many voting poll stations

• creating many train tracks

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.                       •They paid a share of their crops to cover their rent and farming costs.                •Although sharecropping allowed African American farmers to control their own work schedule and working conditions, it also trapped them in poverty because they could not make enough money to pay off their debts and buy their own land.

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Multiple Choice

Most tenant farmers were able to buy their own land.

• True

• False

Black Codes

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

Multiple Choice

What were black codes?

• restrictions placed o freedmen

• Separation of the races

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. •       Created in 1866 by former Confederate soldiers in Tennessee. Hooded, 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 after Reconstruction

• Disenfranchisement after Reconstruction •       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

Plessy vs Furgeson was about a black man who

• was not allowed to vote

• civil rights were denied (14A)

Multiple Choice

What were Jim Craw Laws?

• They restricted blacks rights

• They separated whites and blacks by races.

Multiple Choice

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

• False

• True

Plessy v Ferguson 

•     1892  Plessy Vs. Ferguson –      Separate but Equal (it was never equal)   Jim Crow Laws •    Aimed at separating the races in the South •    Forbade marriage between blacks and whites •    Separate schools, streetcars, waiting rooms, rr, coaches, elevators, witness stands, drinking fountains, and public restrooms

Jim Craw laws

•   Jim Crow Laws •    Aimed at separating the races in the South •    Forbade marriage between blacks and whites •    Separate schools, streetcars, waiting rooms, rr, coaches, elevators, witness stands, drinking fountains, and public restrooms