1. CHAPTER 17:
Reconstruction
Section 3:
Reconstruction in the South

2. VOCABULARY
 Segregation: The forced separation
of whites and African Americans in
public places

3. POLITICAL POWER FOR
AFRICAN AMERICANS
 Blacks now had the right to vote
• Most became Republicans
 Elected over 600
state legislators
• 16 Congressmen

4. The First African Americans
in the Senate and
House of Representatives

5. CARPETBAGGERS AND
SCALAWAGS
 Carpetbaggers –
Northern born
white Republicans
who moved south
after the war
• Many won
political office
or became rich
businessmen

6. How Southerners Viewed
the Carpetbaggers

7. CARPETBAGGERS AND
SCALAWAGS
 Scalawags –
Southern born
white Republicans
• Southerners
believed these
people were
betraying the
South

8. THE KU KLUX KLAN
 Southern whites were angry about
black politicians and Northern troops
in their states
Many joined the Ku Klux Klan
• Secret society that
used terror and violence
to keep blacks from
having equal rights

9. Early Members of the
Ku Klux Klan

10. Ku Klux Klan
Initiation Ceremony

11. Ku Klux
Klan
Intimidation
Tactics

12. Violence and
Lynching

13. THE GRANT
ADMINISTRATION
 One of the most corrupt
presidencies of all time

14. THE PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION OF 1876
 Rutherford B. Hays (Republican)
vs. Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat)

15. Results of the Presidential
Election of 1876

16. THE PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION OF 1876
 Very close results
were disputed
 Compromise of
1877 – Democrats
agreed to accept Hays
as president but
Republicans had to
remove troops from
the South

18. AFRICAN AMERICANS’
RIGHTS RESTRICTED
 Southern state governments passed
new laws
 Poll Tax – Pay a tax before you vote
Literacy Law – Read & write to
vote
• Stopped many blacks from voting

19. AFRICAN AMERICANS’
RIGHTS RESTRICTED
 Jim Crow laws – Enforced
segregation in the South

22. Segregated
Schools

23. Minstrel
Shows
“Jim
Crow”

24. AFRICAN AMERICANS’
RIGHTS RESTRICTED
 Sharecropping – Black farmers
worked land owned by whites in
return for a small share of the crops

25. Sharecroppers

26. Sharecropping
in the South