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The Burden of Southern History

The Burden of Southern History. What were the basic requirements of Congressional Reconstruction in order for states to be readmitted to the Union? Why did Johnson get impeached- Stanton? What was Ex parte Milligan (tribunals) and how did Congress reign in slave power in the Judiciary?.

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The Burden of Southern History

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  1. The Burden of Southern History What were the basic requirements of Congressional Reconstruction in order for states to be readmitted to the Union? Why did Johnson get impeached- Stanton? What was Ex parte Milligan (tribunals) and how did Congress reign in slave power in the Judiciary?

  2. A Region Apart • Defeat & Frustration… the Lost Cause, Purple Dream • Reconstruction Governments Carpet Baggers- North Scalwags- South Freedmen

  3. Black Republicanism US Senate • Blanche Bruce • Hiram Revels Grant’s election- power of the black vote (500,000 votes) Church Unity • Searching for families Booker T. Washington- Tuskegee Institute- founder and president • Atlanta Compromise- forego political agitation for self improvement A tragic era or not?

  4. A Struggling Economy • Land & Labor- flipped upside down • Sharecropping- serfdom? • Crop lien system- debt peonage (50% interest to local banks)- cycle of debt and repayment issues (bad crops) • Credit & capital

  5. White Backlash • Terror: Rise of the KKK • Amnesty Act- 1872 • Civil Rights Act- 1875 • Civil Rights Cases- 1883- prevent government restrictions regarding race (allowed for private and individuals to descrimiate)

  6. Abandoning the Blacks • Hayes Tilden Election of 1876 • The electoral vote • Commission of 15 • Compromise of 1877

  7. Redeemers (Bourbon’s)Government Return of the former planter class: • Reduction of the state run programs- education • Era of Jim Crow • Plessy vs. Ferguson • Poll Tax • Literacy Tests • Grandfather Clause • Solid South • The New South- industrialization, railroads (gages)

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