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Post War • Fires and illness affected the people • War shattered economy • Huge unemployment for Confederate veterans • 4 millions emancipated slaves were homeless
Freed Slaves- Post War • Thought freedom would be much better than it is • Connect with family members that had been sold • Didn’t have much money or often a job to support a family and own land • General Sherman thought it was the divine right of slaves to own land and divided South Carolina into 40 acre parcels for freedpeople
Reconstruction- African Americans • Gave further rights for equal citizenship • Civil Rights Act and Fourteenth Amendment • Registered to vote • Began lobbying • Joined political groups • Union League- Republican views • Helped build schools and churches
African American Reconstruction cont. • Involved in politics (more than 600 elected to state legislatures) • Served as delegates( state and constitutional conventions) • Louisiana and South Carolina outnumbered white delegates • Largest group involved in Republican voters • Hiram Revels (Mississippi) elected to fill senate seat formerly occupied by Jefferson Davis
Government Tensions • Northern republicans arrived in south to participate in legislatures • Resented by white southerners • Called the newcomers carpetbaggers because they were “needy adventurers” and low in class • Confederates called southern white Reconstruction supporters scalawags (scoundrels/ traitors of race and country)
Republican Alliance • Alliance formed between reconstruction supporters • Disagreed on land reform • Party of progress and civilization • Wanted to rebuild south and seize economy by capturing power from southern planters • Drafted new state constitutions • Abolished property qualifications for jurors and political candidates • Gave African American men right to vote
Republican Alliance Dissolved • Panic of 1873- severe economic depression • Farmers and workers threatened strike • lost universal voting rights • New immigrants joined democrats party( called cheapened ballot) • Also lost support from African Americans
Democrats Gain Power • After the Panic 1873 gained sixty seat power • Attracted white voters in the south • Civil Rights Act of 1875 final Republican attempt • Prohibited public businesses from discriminating against African Americans • Did not work as democrats continued to gain power • Democrats called redeemers tried to win back republican voters
Election of 1876 • Tilden (D; New York) and Hayes (R; Ohio) • Tilden won popular vote by 250,000 • Hayes won with one electoral vote • Democrats were furious • Compromise of 1877- Democrats can accept Hayes as president and Republicans will draw federal troops from south
Ku Klux Klan • Started by white southerners in response to rising African American power • Nathan Bedford Forrest “General Wizard” Head of Klan • Passed by congress on April 20, 1871 • Used to undermine African American • Attracted lawyers, professionals, poor farmers and laborers • Many other groups were formed for similar reasons: White Brotherhood, Men of Justice
The Ku Klux Klan cont. • Wanted to destroy Republican party to not allow African Americans to vote • Murdered or attacked many republican legislature, leaders, and Republican voters • Killed and assaulted thousand of people • Burned schools and churches • Stole livestock
End of Reconstruction • Reconstruction governments no longer had federal protections • Redeemers from democratic party rewrote constitutions and overturned reforms • African Americans as well as reconstruction supporters protested the changes
