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Before we start…

Before we start…. Homework: Vocabulary Word, definition, and picture/symbol Black Codes - Segregation Sharecropping - redeemers Jim Crow Laws - Plessy v. Ferguson Poll tax Grandfather Clause.

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  1. Before we start… • Homework: Vocabulary • Word, definition, and picture/symbol • Black Codes - Segregation • Sharecropping - redeemers • Jim Crow Laws - Plessy v. Ferguson • Poll tax • Grandfather Clause

  2. You are a newly freed citizen. (thanks to the 13 Amendment!)What do you need or want to do/get/find?List the 5 most important things.

  3. Agenda • Wants and needs • Poor Southerners and African Americans • Gains • struggles • How effective is Reconstruction?

  4. Gains • Citizenship • Voting • Education • Repeal of Black Codes

  5. Challenges and Struggles • Voting and Rights • Ku Klux Klan • Jim Crow laws • Segregation • Civil Rights Act of 1866; Civil Rights Act of 1875 • Poll tax • Literacy test • Grandfather clause

  6. Challenges and Struggles • Economy • Housing and jobs • Lack of savings and assets • Sharecropping • Tenant farming • Good or bad?

  7. Will Reconstruction last? • Vote

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