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Chapter 4 Section 4. Building a New South Freedmen’s Bureau provides social services, medical care, education Reconstruction—U.S. rebuilds, readmits South into Union (1865–1877) Lincoln’s Plan State readmitted if 10% of 1860 voters swear allegiance to Union - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Chapter 4 Section 4

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• Building a New South• Freedmen’s Bureau provides social

services, medical care, education• Reconstruction—U.S. rebuilds, readmits

South into Union (1865–1877)

• Lincoln’s Plan– State readmitted if 10% of 1860 voters

swear allegiance to Union – Radical Republicans consider plan too

lenient:- want to destroy political power of

former slaveholders- want full citizenship and suffrage

for African Americans

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• Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction– Andrew Johnson, Lincoln’s successor, forms own plan – Excludes Confederate leaders, wealthy landowners– Congress rejects new Southern governments, congressmen

• Congressional Reconstruction– Congress passes Civil Rights Act, Freedmen’s Bureau Act (1866)– Fourteenth Amendment grants full citizenship to African

Americans– Reconstruction Act of 1867 divides Confederacy into districts

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• Johnson Impeached– House impeaches for blocking Reconstruction; Senate

does not convict

• Ulysses S. Grant Elected (#12)– Grant elected president in 1868; wins 9 of 10 African-

American votes– Fifteenth Amendment protects voting rights of African

Americans

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• Conditions in the Postwar South– By 1870, all former Confederate states have rejoined

Union– Republican governments begin public works

programs, social services

• Politics in the Postwar South– Scalawags—farmers who joined Republicans, want

to improve position– Carpetbaggers—Northern Republicans, moved to

the South after the war– Many Southern whites reject higher status, equal

rights for blacks

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• Former Slaves Improve Their Lives– Freedmen found own churches; ministers

become community leaders– Republican governments, church groups found

schools, universities– Thousands move to reunite with family, find

jobs

• African Americans in Reconstruction– Few black officeholders; Hiram Revels is first

black senator

• Sharecropping and Tenant Farming– Sharecropping—to farm land owned by

another, keep only part of crops– Tenant farmers rent land from owner

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• The Collapse of Reconstruction – Ku Klux Klan—southern vigilante group, wants to:– destroy Republicans, aid planter class, repress African Americans – to achieve goals, KKK kills thousand of men, women, children– Enforcement Acts of 1870, 1871 uphold federal power in South– In 1872, Amnesty Act passes, Freedmen’s

Bureau expires

• Reconstruction Fades– Republicans splinter; panic of 1873 distracts North’s attention– Supreme Court rules against Radical

Republican changes

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• Democrats “Redeem” the South• Democrats regain control as 1876 election

deal ends Reconstruction

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The Nadir of American Race Relations

• Period in US History from the end of Reconstruction (1877) through the early 20th Century

• Low point

• 13th Amendment – ended slavery• 14th Amendment – granted citizenship• 15th Amendment – granted the right to vote

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• Black Codes– Right to own and buy property– Right to marry within race– Make contracts– Testify in court (only against people of their own

race)

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• Black Codes (continued)• Designed to restrict black’s activity & to ensure

their ability for labor• Ex: Yearly contracts vs. possible arrest, fines or

forced into unpaid labor• Ex: Mississippi – Evidence of employment each

Jan. If a person left early = forfeit wages & possible arrest

• S. Carolina – Only occupations were farmer or servant unless they paid an annual tax of $10 -$100.

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Jim Crow Laws

• Literacy Tests• Poll Taxes• Grandfather Clauses

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• Intermarriage: All marriages between a white person and a negro, or between a white person and a person of negro descent to the fourth generation inclusive, are hereby forever prohibited. Florida

• Cohabitation: Any negro man and white woman, or any white man and negro woman, who are not married to each other, who shall habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room shall each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twelve (12) months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred ($500.00) dollars. Florida

• Education: The schools for white children and the schools for negro children shall be conducted separately. Florida

• Juvenile Delinquents: There shall be separate buildings, not nearer than one fourth mile to each other, one for white boys and one for negro boys. White boys and negro boys shall not, in any manner, be associated together or worked together. Florida