Daily Quiz 4/13 1. Mr. Smith is a wealthy plantation owner in Georgia, but he can no longer use slaves to farm his land. This is because of the…. 13th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment Freedmen’s Bureau 2. Thomas’s grandfather is a former slave, but he was allowed to vote in the election of 1872. This is because of the…

Life During Reconstruction

Changing Society Confederates did not disappear, they still disliked the government However, they lost power New leadership takes over society African Americans Pro-Union southerners (scalawags) Northerners

Economy of the South The economy of South had focused around cash crops and slavery No slavery = no labor to work Southerners use sharecropping System where workers use land and supplies of land owner Workers then pay off debt to land owners with crops Leads to a inescapable cycle of poverty Many former slaves become sharecroppers and end up working for the same people who enslaved them

Discussion In what ways did society in the South change following the Civil War? How is sharecropping similar and different from the slavery/ cash crop system or the pre- Civil War South? Predict how white Southerners might react to the societal changes of Reconstruction.

Resistance to Change Many white southerners did not accept the idea that former slaves were equal They worked to make sure that didn’t happen Black codes: laws to keep African Americans from becoming equal

Resistance to Change Prevent African American rights Poll tax: required a tax to be paid in order to vote Jim Crow Laws: laws that set up segregation Separating whites and blacks Ku Klux Klan: secret society that use fear and violence to display racism against blacks

Northerners move South Following the war, many Northerners moved South Carpetbaggers Northerners who wanted to profit off the conditions in the South Reconstruction of the South = lots of government money going to the South Some Northern businessmen decided to head South to take advantage of the excess money