1. Post-Reconstruction America
US History
Spiconardi

2. White Control in the South
Black Codes
Old slave codes aimed at keeping blacks at conditions close to slavery
Poll Tax Tax imposed on every voter
Literacy Tests  Had to prove you could read & write before you voted.
Had to interpret the Constitution
Grandfather Clause  If your father or grandfather was eligible to vote in 1866/1867, then you could vote even if you were illiterate or poor.
Jim Crow
Laws that separate blacks and whites

3. Sharecropping/Tenant Farming

4. Segregation

5. Plessy v. Ferguson
Separate railroad cars for blacks and whites was constitutional
“Separate but equal”
Segregation was legal as long as the separate facilities were equal

6. Booker T. & Du Bois

7. Booker T. Washington’s Views
Concentrate on Vocational Education
Learn a trade or skill
Tuskegee Institute Created
Accept “second class citizenship”
DO NOT fight against segregation
DO NOT fight for suffrage
Concentrate on economics
Work hard
Your rights will come later

8. W.E.B. DuBois’ Views You deserve your rights now
Political, social and economic equality
You need to send people to college
Fight for you rights!
Use the law to guarantee your rights
NAACP Established
Court Cases

9. Treatment of Native Americans
Reservations
Dawes Act Any Indian who gave up tribal ways would be granted deeds to their land and citizenship after 25 years
ATTEMPT TO ASSIMILATE INDIANS

10. Industrialism
Business develops and is booing during and after the Civil War
Businesses begin to form monopolies and dominate
Rockefeller and Standard Oil Co.
Americans feel big business hurts them

11. Industrialists Robber Barons Captains of Industry
Businessmen who made their riches at the expense of the poor and working class
Captains of Industry
Business leaders serving the country in a positive way
Philanthropy
(Carnegie building libraries)

12. Government Response Sherman Anti Trust Act
Prohibited monopolies because “it restrained trade or commerce”
Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
Allowed Congress to regulate commerce between states and railroads