Section Terms 15 amendment Scalawags Carpetbaggers Hiram Revels Sharecropping Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Ulysses S. Grant Rutherford B Hayes Segregation Poll tax Literacy Tests Grandfather Clause Jim Crow Laws Plessy v Ferguson

1868 Election Republican Ulysses S. Grant:

15th amendment: states that no one can be kept from voting because of “race, color, or previous servitude” Ratified in 1870

Republican parties of the south1. SCALAWAGS

White southerners who joined the republican party

2. CARPETBAGGERS Northerners who moved south after the

war3. AFRICAN AMERICANS largest group (9/10 supporting

party) Groups had differing goals which led to

lack of unity of the party

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Changes with freedmen Founded new churches First public school systems established Able to vote Some held offices at the local, state and

federal government HIRAM REVELS:

SYSTEM OF SHARECROPPING Large landowners divided their land and

assigned each head of household a few acres with seed and tools

Sharecroppers kept a small portion of crop and had to give the rest to the landowner

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COLLAPSE OF RECONSRUCTION Viligante southern group: KU KLUX

KLAN (kkk) GOALS:

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Restricting Freedmen’s rights Ways to keep them from voting

POLL TAX:

LITERACY TESTS:

GRANDFATHER CLAUSE:

Post Reconstruction Segregation:

Jim Crow Laws:

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

The end of Reconstruction Slowly southern democrats regaining

political power Republicans getting weary. Letting more

southern states run their own government Election of 1876:

Rutherford B. Hayes: promised to have any more federal troops stationed in former confederate states to withdraw

RECONSTUCTION ENDS (1877)