1. Republican Rule Topics: Carpetbaggers and Scalawags 15th Amendment
African American Communities
Southern Resistance
Disenfranchisement
KKK
Do now:
Pg. 258 #1 and 2 Establishing African American colleges
Pg. 259 Critical Thinking Question right side of pg.
Homework:
Read and Complete Lesson 3 if not already done

2. Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
Southerners viewed Northerners who moved to the South as intruders seeking to exploit the South and referred to them as carpetbaggers.
Scalawags
Southerners also disliked white Southerners who worked with the Republicans and supported Reconstruction, referring to them as scalawags.
Raised taxes to pay for building of infrastructure, schools.
Political corruption occurred all over US

4. Fifteenth Amendment
Forbids US or any state denying right to vote based on race, color or previous condition of servitude

5. Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment allowed many formerly enslaved African Americans to become legislators and administrators in the South.
The Republican Party was successful in large part due to the support of poor, white farmers.

7. State Constitutions Had both white and black delegates
Many followed rules of Congress
Created new social welfare programs

8. African American Communities
Churches often became the center of African American communities and promoted social values, settled disputes, and disciplined individuals.
Reconstruction governments built a comprehensive public school system in the South and by 1876, about 40 percent of African American children attended school.
African American academies grew into a network of African American colleges and universities.

10. Southern Resistance
Some Southerners organized secret societies to terrorize African Americans and white supporters of Reconstruction.
The Ku Klux Klan
broke up Republican meetings
drove Freedmen’s Bureau officials out of their communities
burned African American homes, schools, and churches, and
attempted to keep African Americans and white Republicans from voting
Radicals only controlled South if blacks were voting
Grant tried to ban KKK, but southern governments don’t enforce it

11. Southern Resistance
The Enforcement Acts made it a federal crime to interfere with a citizen’s right to vote,
put federal elections under the supervision of federal marshals
outlawed the activities of the Ku Klux Klan.

12. Disenfranchisement
Disenfranchisement refers to actions that prevent people from voting.
The Fifteenth Amendment prohibited disenfranchisement on the basis of race or prior enslavement.
Southern states who were still against voting rights for all Americans came up with a variety of ways to keep African Americans away from the polls.
These included acts of violence, charging a poll tax, stuffing ballot boxes, and requiring voters to take a literacy test.

13. Reflection Question
In what ways did Reconstruction help African Americans? In what ways did it fail them?