Did the policies of Reconstruction undermine the objective of achieving equality and reuniting the country after the Civil War?

• Did the policies of Reconstruction undermine the objective of achieving equality and reuniting the country after the Civil War?

RADICAL REPUBLICANS

Not all policy makers follow Lincoln’s philosophy of, “Malice towards none, charity towards all”.

THIRTEENTH AMENDMENTThe 13th establishes Emancipation as a national policy.

FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT

FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT

All male citizens 21 years old the a right to vote

He Never thought it would happen in his life time

• A Drama of Fierce Revenge• Southern writer Thomas Dixon Jr. expressed his disdain for Reconstruction

in this introduction to his 1905 novel, The Clansman. At the time of the Civil War, many whites, North and South, believed that black people could not be equal to whites, and the notion that black men deserved the vote was not widely accepted.

• Racial equality was unimaginable to Southern white aristocrats who had owned slaves for generations, and to poor whites who feared having to compete with freed slaves for work. Developing a legend of the war, white Southerners like Dixon cast themselves as genteel victims of Northern aggression who bravely resisted, saving their way of life.

• Racist sentiments like Dixon's persisted, and fueled the Ku Klux Klan's resurgence in the 1920s.

• The Clansman develops the true story of the "Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy," which overturned the Reconstruction regime.

• • "One Less Vote."

The Fourteenth Amendment, granting black men the right to vote, was ratified in July 1868. Every black vote became a threat to white Southerners' political power. The stone reads, "Negroe Killed, Seymour Ratification, KKK."

•Is this the result of the 14th Amendment?

The new economics of the South

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• Is the new Southern economy, more beneficial to newly freed African Americans or was it a new form of Slavery?

Former Confederates (KKK) formed their own public policy

JIM CROW AT WORKThe KKK policy at work!

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/themap/map.htmlWhat do these maps tell you about the success of the Civil War to bring emancipation to former slaves?

Click on the link and review the data that the four interactive maps demonstrate.

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1876• The outcome of this election changed

public policy.

ELECTION 1876

HAYES & TILDEN

THE CORRUPT BARGAIN

How can we trace the Civil Rights movement of the sixties to the social conditions that were

left after Reconstruction?

GROUP CHART

SLIDE # & Name UNITED DISUNITED REASON

Each group will choose at least eight slides and analyze them according to the headings below

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