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Aim: What were the immediate effects of Reconstruction?

Aim: What were the immediate effects of Reconstruction? . Do Now: Quiz (10 minutes) . POLITICAL. Political . African Americans took new roles : school superintends, mayors, representatives in the House. They got the right to vote (suffrage) NEW REPUBLICAN PARTY FORMS. Politics .

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Aim: What were the immediate effects of Reconstruction?

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  1. Aim: What were the immediate effects of Reconstruction? Do Now: Quiz (10 minutes)

  2. POLITICAL

  3. Political • African Americans took new roles : school superintends, mayors, representatives in the House. • They got the right to vote (suffrage) • NEW REPUBLICAN PARTY FORMS.

  4. Politics • Scalawags: white men how have been blocked out of politics due to their wealthy neighbors. Carpetbaggers: People from the North, moved to the South. - Opportunity for new jobs and new land.

  5. Blacks in Congress

  6. Republics did not support women’s suffrage at this time.

  7. Social

  8. Social • New schools system • Segregation: separate races • Radical republicans wanted integration (to combine white and black in the United States).

  9. Social • Many southern African Americans were illiterate. • Skilled men got jobs as carpenters, cooks, railroad workers, cooks, ….

  10. Economic

  11. Economic • Building the Railroad and its impact: - Create new jobs & fast and easy way to transport goods. • Sharecropping, Share tendency, and Tenant Farming

  12. Violence Undermines Reform Efforts in the South: KKK: Klu Klux Klan: group of white southerners who terrorized African Americans (burnt homes, schools, churches..)

  13. The Federal Government Responds • Congress passed the Enforcement Acts : • It is a federal offense to interfere with African Americans and their rights.

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