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Warm Up

Warm Up. Write one text message regarding sharecropping from: -White landowner to white landowner -Freedman to freedman. Review. Sharecropping & Tenant farming: ECONOMIC SLAVERY. End of Freedmen’s Bureau. Faced hostility from Southerners.

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Warm Up

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  1. Warm Up Write one text message regarding sharecropping from: -White landowner to white landowner -Freedman to freedman

  2. Review Sharecropping & Tenant farming: ECONOMIC SLAVERY

  3. End of Freedmen’s Bureau • Faced hostility from Southerners • Lacked support not only from the South, but the NORTH too! • Why? • Ended in 1872

  4. Imagine This! You’re a white southerner… You lost your home during the war… Your former slaves are now receiving help from the government… How might you feel? You might want your power back! What are you going to do about it?

  5. Resistance to Reconstruction • White mobs (think of your “A New Birth of Freedom” reading!) • Disenfranchisement: to prevent from voting

  6. Disenfranchisement • Different policies put in place to prevent blacks from voting • Poll taxes • Literacy tests • Threats! • 15th Amendment passed to prevent this

  7. Literacy Tests: Example • Alabama: Test divided into 3 parts • First part: the applicant was given a selection of the Constitution to read aloud. • Section a white applicant might be given: • SECTION 20: That no person shall be imprisoned for debt.

  8. Literacy Tests: Example Section a Black applicant might be given: SECTION 260: The income arising from the sixteenth section trust fund, the surplus revenue fund, until it is called for by the United States government, and the funds enumerated in sections 257 and 258 of this Constitution, together with a special annual tax of thirty cents on each one hundred dollars of taxable property in this state, which the legislature shall levy, shall be applied to the support and maintenance of the public schools, and it shall be the duty of the legislature to increase the public school fund from time to time as the necessity therefor and the condition of the treasury and the resources of the state may justify; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize the legislature to levy in any one year a greater rate of state taxation for all purposes, including schools, than sixty-five cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of taxable property; and provided further, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the legislature from first providing for the payment of the bonded indebtedness of the state and interest thereon out of all the revenue of the state.

  9. Black Codes/Jim Crow Laws • Limits rights and opportunities • Limits jobs to only farm work and unskilled labor • Set curfews—think of Fountain Hughes! • Set punishments for vagrancy (not working)

  10. KKK • Ku Klux Klan began in 1866 by 6 former Confed. soldiers • Including Nathan Bedford Forrest! First Nat’l Leader • Members wore robes and masks to look like the ghosts of dead Confederate soldiers who returned for revenge against enemies of the South.

  11. KKK • Goal: deny African-Americans of their rights • “Keep them in their place” • Included the White League

  12. KKK in Delaware

  13. Closer Describe in 30 words or less the resistance seen towards Reconstruction.

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