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Post Civil War- After the Emancipation . -By Arthur Clark . Reconstruction (now what?). Before the emancipation, Blacks were given the right to vote & free slaves would vote for the party that would most likely free them.
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Post Civil War- After the Emancipation -By Arthur Clark
Reconstruction (now what?) Before the emancipation, Blacks were given the right to vote & free slaves would vote for the party that would most likely free them Afterthe emancipation, Former Slaves set off, if anywhere, to be farmers, what else did they have to do.?! Smh
Sharecropping! (the hell is that? • Sharecropping is an agricultural system which developed in the Southern states during the Civil War. It was a farm tenancy system in which families worked a farm or section of land in return for a share of the crop rather than wages. Sharecropping replaced the plantation system destroyed by the Civil War
The Ku-Klux-Klan (Booooo!) )’: Fuc* these people The BullSh*t they pulled • The first branch of the Ku Klux Klan was established in Pulaski, Tennessee, in May, 1866. A year later a general organization of local Klans was established in Nashville in April, 1867. Most of the leaders were former members of the Confederate Army and the first Grand Wizard was Nathan Forrest, an outstanding general during the American Civil War. During the next two years Klansmen wearing masks, white cardboard hats and draped in white sheets, tortured and killed black Americans and sympathetic whites. Immigrants, who they blamed for the election of Radical Republicans, were also targets of their hatred. Between 1868 and 1870 the Ku Klux Klan played an important role in restoring white rule in North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia.
Situation of the Blacks, (North & South) North The Southh! • Blacks (in the North)after the Civil War enjoyed many privileges that their predecessors could only dream of. They could vote, hold office and attend school. • Despite these major improvements, life for Southern blacks was far from perfect. "Black Codes," designed to limit the opportunities of blacks, were passed in the South during Reconstruction. The Black Codes placed taxes on free blacks who tried to pursue nonagricultural professions, restricted the abilities of blacks to rent land or own guns, and even allowed the children of "unfit" parents to be apprenticed to the old slave masters . In effect, this was a continuation of slavery
