5. “Carpetbaggers” Nickname applied by Southern whites to people who migrated South after the Civil War

6. The “Carpetbagger” Stereotype Click to play!

7. The Motives of the Carpetbaggers P ower O pportunity W ealth S ervice

8. Educating Freedmen and Women Although many carpetbaggers went South to seek fortune and political office, many went South to educate freedmen and women. Hampton Institute (VA) Late Nineteenth Century Hampton Institute (VA) Late Nineteenth Century

9. The Republican Coalition in the South “Carpetbaggers” “Scalawags” Freedmen

10. Resistance to Reconstruction

11. The (First) Ku Klux Klan Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA Vigilantism 1865-1874

12. The Second Ku Klux Klan

13. The Two Klans “Kompared” The First Ku Klux Klan The Second Ku Klux Klan Time Period Reconstruction1920s Regional Prevalence SouthMidwest, South Purpose Oppose carpetbagger governments Oppose immigration, Catholicism, black migration MethodsIntimidation & Violence

14. Birth of a Nation Highest grossing silent film EVER Glamorized the KKK – Responsible for rise of Second KKK? (1915)

15. From Birth of a Nation POTUS

16. Birth of a Nation (1915) CLIP ONE NOTE: The inclusion of this video footage is for educational purposes and is not intended to endorse the views and perspectives contained therein.

17. 1872 Presidential Election Republican Split – Radicals vs. Moderates Horace Greeley – Liberal Republican party Opposed Radical Reconstruction and government corruption Democrats Back Greeley

19. You Win. You Die.

20. 1872 1868 1876

21. Birth of a Nation (1915) CLIP TWO NOTE: The inclusion of this video footage is for educational purposes and is not intended to endorse the views and perspectives contained therein.

22. Restoration of Southern “Home Rule” 1869-1877 1869 1874 1871 1877 1874 1873 1870 1869 1876

23. 1874 Northern public opinion turns against Radical Reconstruction. Perception of “Colored Rule” and corruption in the South under Carpetbag state governments http://blackhistory.harpweek.com/7illustratio ns/reconstruction/coloredrule.htm

24. 1874 Congressional Elections U.S. House of Representatives VOTERS REACT TO: Bad Economy Political Corruption Reconstruction Policy

25. Birth of a Nation (1915) CLIP THREE NOTE: The inclusion of this video footage is for educational purposes and is not intended to endorse the views and perspectives contained therein.

26. Republican Platform Republican Platform Tilden: 184 Hayes: 166 Disputed: 19 FTW: 185 1872 1868 1876 Democratic Platform Democratic Platform

27. http://elections.harpweek.com/controversy.htm

28. Compromise of 1877 DISPUTED ELECTION Samuel Tilden (D-NY) Rutherford B. Hayes (R-OH) “Rutherfraud” 184 166 185

30. “Redeemer” Governments Southern White “Bourbon” Democrats re-assert authority “Solid South” – DEMOCRATIC STRONGHOLD Republican Party a non-entity in Southern politics until the 1960s Gov. Wade Hampton (SC)

31. The “Solid South” Almost 50 Years Later

32. The Textile Industry Moves South CHEAP LABOR

33. But the South was still primarily agricultural. Photo by Martin LaBarMartin LaBar

34. Photo by stonebirdstonebird

35. Segregation Photo by Universal PopsUniversal Pops

36. VOTING RESTRICTIONS New York Historical Society

37. Literacy Tests Photo by ladytimelessladytimeless

38. Poll Tax

40. Photo by Rene BastiaanssenRene Bastiaanssen

41. Photo by Rene BastiaanssenRene Bastiaanssen If this guy could vote...

42. Photo by allesokallesok

43. The Supreme Court and Civil Rights (Late Nineteenth Century) In the late 19 th century, the Supreme Court upheld Jim Crow, as well as restrictions on voting. (Restrictions were not explicitly based on race.) Photo by Joe Gratz

44. Plessy v. Ferguson Segregation Challenged (1896) Photo by stef_dit_patocstef_dit_patoc

45. Plessy v. Ferguson SEPARATE BUT EQUAL (1896) Photo by fdfd

46. The Reality 1904 political cartoon by John T. McCutcheon

47. OVERTURNED Brown v. Board (1954) Photo by &y&y

48. “One hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.”