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Economic Changes in the South and Black Codes

Standard 4.4 – 4.5 E.Q. . Economic Changes in the South and Black Codes. Economic Changes . Little impact on the South: Still agricultural Sharecropping: families farmed a portion of a landowner’s land in return for housing and a share of the crop.

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Economic Changes in the South and Black Codes

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  1. Standard 4.4 – 4.5 E.Q. Economic Changes in the South and Black Codes

  2. Economic Changes • Little impact on the South: • Still agricultural • Sharecropping: families farmed a portion of a landowner’s land in return for housing and a share of the crop. • Least beneficial to sharecroppers who could rarely get ahead. • Tenant Farming: paid rent to farm the land: • Owned the crops they grew • Were less at the mercy of white landowners.

  3. Move of Freedman • Many left the plantation looking for relatives or seeking freedom. • Most returned to areas they know. • Exodusters: African Americans who moved west, Kansas. • Backbone of Republican Party and the majority of the vote.

  4. Black Codes • Overturned by Congressional Reconstruction. • Blacks made significant social and political changes but little economic progress throughout reconstruction. • Also showed that the South was slowly growing in accommodating to an improving black status. • Black Codes: discriminatory laws passed through out the post-civil war south which restricted the rights of blacks.

  5. Freedman freedom questioned • The election of 1876 and the compromise of 1877 removed military protection for the political rights of the freedman and brought the end Reconstruction.

  6. Black Codes in everyday life. • Traveling without permits • Meeting together after sunset • Carrying weapons • Serving on juries • Testifying against whites • Renting property • Marring whites

  7. Jim Crow laws • Segregation laws used to separate blacks & whites in public facilities. • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896): Supreme Court ruling that said: • Separate yet equal didn’t violate the 14thamedment. • Reconstruction was never able to create better feelings between the North and South.

  8. Positive of Africa Americans • Brown v. Board of Education: Did not undermine the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment. • Prevented Segregated Schools in the US in the 1900’s.

  9. Other ways of Discrimination • Poll Tax: required voters to pay a set amount of money in order to vote. • Literacy tests: required citizens to prove they could read/write. • Grandfather Clause: exempted citizens from restrictions on voting if they or their ancestors, had voted in previous elections. • poor, illiterate whites, African Americans

  10. Ku Klux Klan • Terror hate group of whites who advocated violence against Freed Blacks. • Scare tactics • Prevent freemen from voting • Control their activities and rights • Southern Democrats to power. • http://life.time.com/history/ku-klux-klan-photos-of-a-klan-initiation-ritual-in-georgia-in-1946/#1

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