Reconstruction Slide 2 Time period after the Civil War when the
south was rebuilt Slide 3 Reconstruction Lasted From 1865 - 1877
That would be 12 years and involved four presidents ! Slide 4 What
were some of the problems facing newly freed African Americans?
Slide 5 Freedom! Limitations/Needs Facing The Freedmen They Need
Housing They Need Food They Need Clothing They Need Jobs Slide 6
What were some of the new opportunities facing African Americans?
Slide 7 Freedom! The Joys Move/Travel Freely Founded Schools
Establish Religion Marry Legally Own Land Slide 8 Who was
responsible for addressing the freedmen issues? Slide 9 13 th
Amendment ABOLISHED SLAVERY! Slide 10 14 th Amendment Gave African
Americans citizenship Slide 11 The Fourteenth Amendment Guarantee
rights as citizens Guaranteed citizenship to every person born in
the U.S. Made each person a citizen of the state Defined specific
rights of citizens Protected them against power of state
governments Slide 12 The Fourteenth Amendment Due process of law
Threatened to deprive states of representation in Congress
Three-fifths clause abolished Reduce representation if adult males
not permitted to vote Slide 13 15 th Amendment Voting! Slide 14 The
Fifteenth Amendment Forbade states from excluding citizens from
voting on account of race, color, or previous condition of
servitude. Does not guarantee the right to vote Women Poll taxes
Literacy tests Property qualifications Slide 15 Sharecropping
Farmers who kept part of the crop in return for their labor Slide
16 Sharecropping A landowner allows person to use the land in
return for a share of the crop produced on the land (50% split),
but... Anything borrowed and/or rent also had to be paid with the
remainder of the crop Slide 17 Tenant Farming Farmers who paid rent
on their land Only slightly betterthese farmers have purchased
their own equipment and only rent the land. Slide 18 Result of
Sharecropping and Tenant farming CYCLE OF DEBT Slide 19
Carpetbaggers Northern Republicans who moved south Slide 20
Freedmens Bureau Succeeded in helping supply clothing, medical
care, food and education to many freed people Slide 21 Freedmens
Bureau School Slide 22 Students standing outside a freedmens school
known as James Plantation School (North Carolina) Slide 23 As a
Result, the Freedmens Bureau Could not overcome Southern
hostilities Lacked political support from both Northern and
Southern government officials Ended in 1872 Slide 24 Black
Codes/Jim Crow Laws Limits rights and opportunities Limits jobs to
farm work or unskilled labor Set curfews Establishes punishments
for vagrancy (not working) Slide 25 Black Codes Southern states
restricted the rights of former slaves by make laws (called black
codes). Slide 26 Goals of the KKK prevent African Americans from
exercising their rights Slide 27 KKK Rally in Delmar, DE 1920 Slide
28 During Reconstruction Many blacks were elected into government!
Slide 29 Black Politics Blacks flocked to Republican Party (1,465
black men held political office in the south) Blanche K. Bruce and
Hiram Revels (Mississippi US Senator) 14 in House of Reps. and 6
Lt. Gov Many were well qualified- some wealthy and a few were
former slave owners Slide 30 Black Politics Black Politicians
demanded: 1.Civil Rights (equal access) 2.Equal pay and treatment
in the labor force 3.Land and property protection Blacks staged
sit-ins and strikes Ultimately, disagreements amongst themselves,
lack power and support to affect a change
