SSUSH10 Part 2 Standards d through f. SSUSH10d: Explain Black Codes, Ku Klux Klan, and other forms of resistance to racial equality during Reconstruction.

SSUSH10 Part 2Standards d through f

SSUSH10d: Explain Black Codes, Ku Klux Klan, and other forms of resistance to racial equality

during Reconstruction

• Black Codes: Laws that Southern states passed following the Civil War that limited the freedoms of African Americans. 

• For example, in Mississippi, blacks were forbidden from renting land anywhere except within cities. This prevented blacks from renting land on farms and making a living with crops

• People considered a meeting of two or more blacks to be a gang. Then they were tried in court.

SSUSH10d: Explain Black Codes, Ku Klux Klan, and other forms of resistance to racial equality

during Reconstruction

• The most notorious of these anti-black groups was the KKK

• It was a secret organization who dressed in white hoods and terrorized and intimidated African Americans as well as those whites who supported African American rights

• They continued their terror into the twentieth century and, while their objectives have changed, they still exist in places today

SSUSH10e: Explain the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in relation to Reconstruction

• An obscure rule was broken by President Johnson in 1868 when he violated the Tenure in Office Act (limited the President's authority to hire and fire government officials) by trying to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton for his work with Radical Republicans

• Led by Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, the House of Representatives voted to impeach Andrew Johnson for violating this law

• In the Senate, Johnson's opponents fell just one vote shy of successfully removing Johnson from the office of the Presidency

SSUSH10e: Explain the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in relation to Reconstruction

SSUSH10f: Analyze how the Presidential Election in 1876 and the subsequent compromise of 1877 marked the end of

Reconstruction

• Democrats in the South allowed a Republican, Rutherford B. Hayes, to be elected in 1876 with a promise the restrictions on southern states would be loosened.

• As this ended Reconstruction, African Americans lost almost all of the ground that they had gained in the South as Jim Crow Laws required whites and blacks to use separate facilities

• Also, poll taxes and literacy tests were put in place to hinder African Americans from voting 

The Failure of Reconstruction