1. AP US History
Week 15

2. To Do List 4.05 Social Reconstruction 4.06 Discussion Based Assessment
(Week 16) Segment 1 Exam

3. 4.05 Social Reconstruction
Know the Following for the 4.5 Quiz
Crop-lien system
Sharecropping
14th Amendment
Social changes in the South
Disenfranchisement
KKK and the white league
Women’s rights movement
15th amendment
United States v Cruishank (1875)

4. Reconstruction in the South
1870- All former Confederate states readmitted to the Union
All under Republican control with new state Constitutions
First public schools in the South (segregated)
Asylums
Equality of civil and political rights
Ended imprisonment for debt, property qualifications for office, whipping as punishment

5. Politics in the South
State legislatures still mostly white (SC exception)
2,000 African Americans held office during reconstruction
Hiram Revels- first black Senator in US History
Civil Rights
Economic failures however, many former slaves remained poor

6. Reconstruction Opponents
Democrats, planters, and merchants
Southern whites opposed reconstruction governments b/c economy did not improve
Lots of corruption

7. The End of Reconstruction
1873-economic panic
1874-Democrat gains
Slaughterhouse cases

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