Lesson 3.3 - Reconstruction & Southern SOciety

Carpetbaggers

Freedmen

Scalawags

They were seen as traitors by white southerners.

Southerners felt they were trying to benefit from the South’s misery.

They feared northerners were planning on arresting all former Confederates.

Hiram Revels

Blanche K. Bruce

Jefferson Davis

To organize public education in southern states.

To encourage African Americans to vote in upcoming elections.

Prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

They made it a crime to use force to keep people from voting.

They encouraged the creation of all Black groups to fight back against the KKK

They required known members of the KKK to register with the government.

The struggles white southerners went through adapting to a society without slavery.

The struggles and discrimination African Americans dealt with during Reconstruction in the South.

The economic benefits of sharecropping for landowners and former slaves.

Taxes were increased

States borrowed money from foreign countries.

Former Confederate soldiers were required to volunteer on construction projects.

State governments built schools all across the South.

Corruption among politicians became common.

Few African Americans wanted to participate as voters.

Southern farmers were required to pay additional taxes to help rebuild nearby cities.

Other countries began growing and selling similar crops at affordable prices.

People refused to buy their products because of what they did in the Civil War.

Sharecropping denied African Americans the right to vote.

Sharecroppers were denied citizenship by the U.S. government.

Sharecroppers were frequently in debt to landowners.