Bell-Work 8/19 •1. True or False: Missouri was a Border State? •2. Which Union General led a “March to the Sea”? •3. The battle at which Fort started the Civil War? •4. Which city was it located in? Class Notes 8/19 (Reconstruction/New South) Reconsturction
•Was the name of the era after the Civil War •1865-1877 • The government and people struggled to find a balance between uniting the country and assisting the former slaves. The Ku Klux Klan •In 1866, a secret organization called the Ku Klux Klan was organized in Tennessee with the purpose of opposing civil rights • Wearing disguises and hiding their faces, members attacked individuals, lynching many. • The Force Acts passed by Congress allowed the military to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment, Which helped destroy the KKK, it would be resurrected in the 1920s Redeemers •Southern Democrats retook control of their state governments. Seen as the restorers of the “true South” (Redeemers) •decrease taxes, •decrease the size of the government •decrease racial equality •Southern states instituted Poll Taxes (requiring people to pay money to vote) •Literacy Tests (Requiring a certain level of literacy to vote) •These measure made it very difficult for former slaves to participate in government • Grandfather Clauses, laws that protected men whose fathers or grandfathers voted before the Civil War(because they were white)
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