1. The New South

2. 1868 - Ulysses S. Grant elected President
Civil War hero
Campaign ads - “Union’s Greatest General”
700,000 blacks voted
almost 100% for Grant

3. Fifteenth Amendment
Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote based on skin color, in the North or South
Ratified in 1870

4. Groups that dominate Southern politics
Scalawags
Southerners who support Republican Reconstruction plan

5. Groups that dominate Southern politics
Carpetbagger
Northerners who move to the South
Fortune hunters / profiteers
Like the Southern way of life
Reformers

6. Groups that dominate Southern politics
African-Americans - gain political power
Elected to political office
Mayors
Sheriffs
Law makers
16 Congressman
2 Senators

7. Groups that dominate Southern politics
Conservative Whites
Don’t embrace change
Real power should be in hands of the whites

8. Groups that dominate Southern politics
Ku Klux Klan - terrorist group - lynching / cross-burning / intimidation
Anti black
Anti Catholic
Anti Jewish
Anti Immigrant

9. Life in the New South Freedmen’s Bureau Provide food and clothes
Find jobs
Medical care
Set up schools for the freed slaves in the South
,000 African-Americans in school
Volunteer teachers from the North
Set up 4300 schools
Howard University
Morehouse College

10. Life in the New South
In the South, opportunities were limited for many people. The freedman had no money to buy land. Many freedman and poor whites became share croppers.
Rented farmland from owner
Paid by giving over share of crops
Had to pay for tools, seeds, and farm animals
Very little was left over for family
Started cycle of poverty

11. Life in the New South VOTING RESTRICTIONS
1.Many Southern States passed Polling taxes. Polling taxes required voters to pay a fee every time they voted. Africans rarely had the money to pay the tax so they couldn't vote.
2. Literacy Tests: These tests required voters to read and explain a difficult part of the Constitution. Since few Africans had an education and couldn't read, they were kept away from the polls.
3. Grandfather Clause: If a voter’s father or grandfather voted in an election the voter did not have to take the literacy test.

12. Life in the New South SEGREGATION
Segregation became the law of the South. Segregation means separating people of different races
Southern states passed Black Codes that separated blacks and whites in schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, streetcars, playgrounds, hospitals, and even cemeteries. These Black Codes are also know as Jim Crow Laws

13. The End of Reconstruction
The Election of 1876
The election was close, each candidate claims the 4 votes in Florida. Who ever gets the votes wins

14. The End of Reconstruction
The Hayes-Tilden Compromise
NORTH
Hayes gets the 4 Florida votes and wins the election
Hayes (Republican) becomes President
SOUTH
Remove federal troops from the south, ends Reconstruction
Use federal money to rebuild southern railroads
Reconstruction is over

15. What changed??????