Period 3 - De-Constructing Reconstruction by Keith Layman https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7x3cztcpu4l9 en-us 2017-12-13 13:21:37 UTC 2025-07-11 04:22:08 UTC hello@padlet.com erincraig https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7x3cztcpu4l9/wish/315272929 Marriage rights 
Churches, clubs, and schools formed 
Freedmen's Bureau- organized to protect the rights of African Americans (helped with contracts), also established education 

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  • Said slavery/involuntary servitude is a crime
14th Amendment:
  • Said that black people are allowed into politics, they have equal rights and can participate in politics
15th Amendment
  • allowed freed slaves to defend themselves
  • Gave all citizens the right to vote
Grant tried to stop violence against the slaves at the beginning of his term


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  • Sharecropping did not always work as blacks were often pushed into debt by the landowners
  • Farmers wanted greenbacks because they were going into debt
  • Panic of 1873 essentially ended Reconstruction
  • Banks and Bondholders wanted gold-backed currency

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    - Many Blacks didn’t vote out of fear from white groups such as the Ku Klux Klan

    - Reconstruction failed to bring the north and the south together. There were still tensions between the two and the south failed to follow many of the north's policies

    - Black Codes didn’t give blacks equal rights 

    - Northern politicians refused to invest funds in the economic and physical reconstruction of the south, so the southern economy was damaged for generations 

    - white supremacy was restored on the south as the northerners abandoned their commitment to protecting former slaves ]]>     2018-12-17 17:53:46 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7x3cztcpu4l9/wish/315274139     https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7x3cztcpu4l9/wish/315274711
  • Jim Crow Laws- targeted at Black people and restricted/ segregated them, elections were white-controlled, rise of lynching in the South
  • KKK- put fear in the blacks so they would have fear in doing simple everyday things

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  • North central part of the country was enriched quickly after; Ohio, Illinois, Michigan
  • Sharecropping gave freedmen a slightly better way of earning income for themselves. and allowed former slave owners to gain similar profits by essentially using slavery

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