Transcript Andrew Johnson – president – not successful in

The period after The Civil War
Sharecropper
plants and
harvests
crop.
Black Codes – news
laws to restrict freed
black’s rights.
Blacks couldn’t serve
on juries or testify
against whites.
Created racial
segregation
If a black
couldn’t prove
he had a job,
he could be
arrested.
Prohibited interracial
marriages.
• Congress threatened to stop the Southern states’
return to the Union because of the mistreatment of the
freedmen in the South.
• Congress passes the 15th amendment to guarantee
citizenship and equal rights to all persons born in the
US. (1868)
• Andrew Johnson – president – not successful in
Reconstruction – Military Reconstruction Acts. (couldn’t
reenter the Union without passing new state
constitutions)
• First president to be impeached – stays by one vote.
• Pass 14th amendment – guarantees all male citizens the
right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude. (1870)
The original Ku Klux Klan was
created at a Christmas Eve, 1865
meeting in a law office by six
educated, middle-class Confederate
veterans who were bored with
postwar life in Pulaski, TN. The
name was constructed by
combining the Greek "kyklos"
(circle) with "clan." It was at first a
humorous social club centering on
practical jokes and hazing rituals.
From 1866 to 1867, the Klan began
breaking up black prayer meetings
and invading black homes at night
to steal firearms.
Goals: To protect the weak, the innocent, and the defenseless from the
indignities, wrongs and outrages of the lawless, the violent and the brutal; to
relieve the injured and oppressed; to succor the suffering and unfortunate, and
especially the widows and orphans of the Confederate soldiers.
Second: To protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Third: To aid and assist in the execution of all constitutional laws, and to protect
the people from unlawful seizure, and from trial except by their peers in
conformity with the laws of the land
1. What group of Georgians suffered the most
following The Civil War? farmers
2. Economically, what was one of Georgia farmers’
biggest problems? No $, no resources, no help
3. What happened to Georgia’s transportation
system? Had to be totally rebuilt; develop better
transportation system
4. What was the grandfather clause?
If the law was passed after you were already
established, it didn’t apply to you, but to all those after
you
6. What is a monopoly? Total control of a product or
industry
7. Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) court case where
the law upheld “separate but equal” was okay.
The New South
• Expand its industry
• Rely less on a few cash crops such as
cotton (diversification)
• Grow more food crops
• Henry Grady – editor of the AJC – big
promoter of The New South
• GA industries in 1900 – cotton, timber,
soft drinks – Coca - Cola
CAUSE
EFFECT
Growth of railroads
More goods available to
consumers, growth of labor
unions, more jobs
New inventions
Opportunities for
entrepreneurs, goods for
consumers
Large supply of natural
resources
More economic opportunities,
rise of new corporations
Rise of new corporations
More jobs, poor working
conditions
Poor working conditions
Labor unions
1. Job Opportunities for women
Factories, telephone operators, store clerks, typists
2. In 1890, 1 in 4 colleges graduates women as
Nurses and teachers
3. Growth of American cities leads to:
Sweatshops and slum reforms, new roles for women,
new forms of entertainment, immigration, technology
4. Who was Sidney Lanier?
Poet, wrote about an economy based on land widely
shared by many classes – character more valued than $
5. The New South – Idea that development of business
and industry would replace the old ways in the South
1865 The Civil War Ends; black codes passed in South;
KKK forms; 13th amendments passed (ends slavery)
1866 Statue of Liberty a gift from France; Freedman’s
Bureau established; 14th amendment passed (citizen rights)
1867 Reconstruction begins; Andrew Johnson impeached;
U.S. buys Alaska from Russia
1868 US Grant elected president
1869 15th amendment passed (right to vote – male)
1872 Freedman’s Bureau Ends
1877 Reconstruction ends; military rule in South lifted
1889 Poll taxes and literacy tests
1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson
1890’s The New South begins to form
Positives For Blacks
Negatives For Blacks
Freedom from slavery
Black codes/ KKK
13th, 14th, and 15th
amendments
Chance to move and
find new jobs and
opportunities
Education and schools
Freedman’s Bureau
Racial prejudice and
segregation
Separate but not equal
facilities
Sharecropping pitfalls
Lack of $, resources,
education