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The Failure of Reconstruction

The Failure of Reconstruction. I. A Reconstruction Timeline. A . Presidential Reconstruction ( 1865-1866): Black Codes & Johnson’s Pardons. B . Congressional Reconstruction (1866-1870): Rec. Act of 1867, 13 th , 14 th , 15 th Amendments, Force Acts. Students at a Freedman’s Bureau School.

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The Failure of Reconstruction

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  1. The Failure of Reconstruction

  2. I. A Reconstruction Timeline

  3. A. Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1866): Black Codes & Johnson’s Pardons

  4. B. Congressional Reconstruction (1866-1870): Rec. Act of 1867, 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments, Force Acts Students at a Freedman’s Bureau School

  5. C. Troops in the South (1870-1877)

  6. D. Reconstruction Ends: The Hayes-Tilden Election and the Compromise of 1877

  7. II. Growing Resistance to Reconstruction • The Racism of White Southerners: KKK, Black Codes….. • The Racism and Indifference of White Northerners

  8. III. The Legacy of Reconstruction • Negative: • Social Inequality: Jim Crow Laws & Plessy v. Ferguson

  9. Sample Jim Crow Laws • Textbooks: Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them. (North Carolina) • Baseball: It shall be unlawful for any amateur colored baseball team to play baseball in any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of any playground devoted to the white race. (Georgia)

  10. Another Jim Crow Law • Restaurants. It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment. (Alabama)

  11. Political Inequality: Grandfather Clauses, Literacy Tests, etc. Of Course He Wants to Vote for the Democratic Ticket

  12. Economic Inequality: Limited Land Leads to Sharecropping and Debt

  13. Lynching and Racial Violence

  14. B. Positive • Example and Legal Framework for Civil Rights Movement • Black Institutions and Black Leaders

  15. Washington & DuBois

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