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• Evaluate the causes of the end of the Reconstruction
• Chronicle the effects of the Reconstruction on Southern society and African Americans after 1877
• We have learned this year of certain people who have had their beliefs…– Nativists…(?)
• Start in 1866• Ghosts of Civil War• Their mission involves
revenge and redemption…(?)
• South attempts a “Counter-Reconstruction” (?)
• Founders include Nathan Bedford Forrest…
• In the South, how was the KKK viewed??
• Targets?– Southern Republicans– Blacks
• What did the 1st Klan (1866 to 1870s) succeed in doing?– Intimidated Republicans– Keep Blacks in lowest role
Heroes!!Good Ole
Boys!!
• Enforcement Act of 1870…(?)– Anti-KKK laws– Does it work?
• What is the KKK waiting for?– USA army to get out
of the South…then what?• Reverse the “progress”
Yes…but we’ll just lay low!!
• Grant’s Presidency known for…– Corrupt cabinet
• How do you think Grant wanted to act with the Reconstruction?– TOUGH…and he was
early on!• Who told him to ease
up?– Republicans…why?
• Being tough on the South = ???
• Loyalty oath never mattered…no punishments either
• Alexander Stephens was the former VP for the CSA– From 1873 to 1880, he
was a US Representative for GA
• The Old Order (Solid South) took the power back after just 10 years!
Some of you think
this is fair…
• What do you notice?!?!?!?!?!?!?• What happened in 4 states…• What did the Democrats say?
• Congress makes a commission of 15 members (???)– 8 Reps– 7 Dems
• How does this end?
• What do the Republicans get?• What do the Democrats get?• Reconstruction = ???
7b. Compromise of 1877
• 1870s, South has control of itself again
• What is the South’s mission now?– Bring the Old
Paradigm back!!! – Make Blacks 2nd
class citizens (ESP)
Suckas!
13.Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction
14.All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
15.The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
• (AR)41-808. “Persons of Negro race”– “a person of Negro race is any
person who has in his or her veins any Negro blood whatever.”
Step 1
13.Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction
14.All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
15.The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
• Poll Tax– Pay a fee before you
vote• Literacy Test
– pass a very hard test to be allowed to vote
• Who else gets hurt with these two laws?– Poor whites!!!
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9t1tpbZQhk
Check out the literacy test in your
white packet
• Grandfather Clause put in Southern states from 1898 to 1910
• Magic year is 1865-1867 depending on the state…
Effects of the Poll Taxand Literacy Tests…
13.Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction
14.All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws• What will/can the South do to this?
• Blacks are still citizens…but equal and…– Separate!!!
• AKA 2nd class citizens
• put in Southern States in end of 1800s
Jim CrowLaws
Check out the laws that
were made by southern states in the white packet
• Reinforcing 2nd class status that was around a long time (Paradigm )
• Socialized people to keep these beliefs…(still?)
• South Africa copied their Apartheid system from USA!!!
13.Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction
14.All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
15.The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
Economic Trap for Blacks• Share-
croppers– Most stay
on farms and are stuck there as tenant farmers
– Rich Planters win!!!
– Blacks stuck in debt
George Peon story
thoughts?
10. Who can save the blacks
from these Segregation laws?
• What does the Supreme Court do?– Waters
down the 14th & 15th…
• Supreme Court kept ruling many Civil Rights Acts unconstitutional
• Fed Gov now says it can’t prevent private organizations from discriminating against certain people…“Deal with it”
• AA Homer Plessy sued when he had to seat in different section on LA train
• Supreme Court comes up with famous line…– “Separate but equal”– Segregation ruled legal– 14th only gives political
equality but not SOCIAL
Is it equal?
Next Year
But they will have gotten
into college, & developed
senioritis… so they won’t care
Lynching
