Reconstruction Part 2

How did African Americans participate in politics? What party did they take up?
-With African Americans being able to vote after passing of 15th amendment ushers in era of Republican Party in South and allows African Americans to gain political post on every level in the South including in the US Senate.

Carpetbaggers - Northern white and black men who relocated to the South in order to improve economic and political circumstance.

Scalawags - Southern white men who had been frozen out of politics before the war who allied with Republicans to gain political power.

What was the Freedman’s Bureau? What did it do for both white and black refugees?
-Plan from Radical Republicans to form government agency to aid both White and Black refugees in the South, the goal was to provide food, clothing, healthcare, education for refugees.

How did gov leaders want to redistribute land?
-Congress had no interest in Thaddeus Stevens plan to confiscate rich southerners land and redistribute land to freedmen.

Sharecropping - landowner picks crop, provides needs, in return for part of crop.

Share-tenancy - same as sharecropping except farmer chose crop and bought own tools.

Tenant-farming - pay cash rent to land owner in order to make all choices.

What ways did south resist?
-Passed black codes which limited African American rights including what work African Americans could doSome set up vagrancy laws which meant South could arrest African Americans without jobs and send them to prison camps.

What was the Ku Klux Klan? What aspects of African American life do they target?
-KKK formed in Tennessee in 1866 terrorized African Americans by burning homes, schools, churches and beating, maiming, and killing African Americans