The south under reconstruction

1. The south under reconstruction Section 3 Chapter 18

2. New Forces in Southern Politics… • White Southern republicans: • Known as Scalawags: • Supported the New Republican Governments of the South. • Northern Republicans: • Known as Carpetbaggers: • Northerners who came to the South after the war.

3. New Forces in Southern Politics… • African Americans: • Voted in large numbers. • Ran and were elected to public office in the South. • Served in the Senate. • Hiram Revels: • Blanche K. Bruce:

4. The South Fights Back • Conservatives • White southerners who did not want change in the South. • Willing to let African Americans vote and hold a few offices. • Most were Democrats.

5. Sharecroppers • Farmed land for rich landowners. • Sharecroppers would receive seed, fertilizer and tools of the landowner. • In exchange, sharecroppers would give the landowner a part of the harvest.

6. Cycle of Poverty • When the sharecroppers would farm the land of the plantation owners. • Each year the sharecropper would fall into debt. • Eventually, the sharecroppers would fall so far into debt they could never leave. • “Legal form of slavery”

7. The Challenge of Rebuilding: • Despite political problems, Reconstruction governments tried to rebuild the South. • Built schools for both whites and blacks. • Gave women the right to own property. • Rebuilt railroads, telegraph lines, bridges, and roads.

8. Ku Klux Klan • Conservatives formed secret societies designed to help them regain power • K K K was designed to keep blacksand white Republicans out of office