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Southern Resistance through Reconstruction

Southern Resistance through Reconstruction. By Mark, Will, Alex and Jacob. Claim Reconstruction was ended due to Southern resistance through reducing black rights and politically gaining power to force a compromise with the Republican party, which ended reconstruction.

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Southern Resistance through Reconstruction

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  1. Southern Resistance through Reconstruction By Mark, Will, Alex and Jacob

  2. Claim Reconstruction was ended due to Southern resistance through reducing black rights and politically gaining power to force a compromise with the Republican party, which ended reconstruction.

  3. Black Codes laws had intent to reduce black freedom and give back power to wealthy plantation owners allowed to arrest blacks for petty crimes, then force them to commit involuntary labour laws which was intent to reduce black freedom1 many states required blacks to sign up for yearly labor contracts, if refused were forced into unpaid labor1 “free negro or mulatto legally employed by said employer has illegally deserted said employment, such justice of the peace or member of the board of police issue his warrant or warrants, returnable before himself or other such officer, to any sheriff, constable or special deputy, commanding him to arrest said deserter, and return him or her to said employer”1 2). The American Mosaic: The African American Experience (ABC Clio 2013)

  4. KKK • The Ku Klux Klan was a club for Confederate Veterans that started in Tennessee in 1866 but turned into violent terrorist organizations as it spread to almost every southern state2 • Goal: to restore white supremacy and tried to do this by not allowing African Americans from using their political rights3 • The klan killed thousands of African Americans and whites who supported them in any way, they also burnt down schools, churches, and property2 • Klan tried to turn Republicans out of power, due to the fact that they established Reconstruction government2 • The klan tried to stop African americans from making economic progress2 2.) Gerald. A Danzer, The Americans (Hougton Mifflin, 2005) 394-295 3.) David Pilgrim, "Ku Klux Klan." In The American Mosaic (Abc clio, 2010)

  5. Politics Southern Democrats Allied with Liberal republicans to bring about an end to reconstruction. The Democratic candidate won however republicans disputed the accuracy of the vote in several states. Democrats created a bargain in which they would concede that the Republican candidate won in exchange for all federal troops being withdrawn from the south effectively ending reconstruction4 4..Eric Foner, Give me Liberty an American History, (New York: W.W.Norton, 20-5), 38-39

  6. Sources The American Mosaic: The African American Experience, s.v. "Black Codes of Mississippi (1865)," accessed October 10, 2013. http://africanamerican.abc-clio.com/. Danzer, Gerald. A, ed. TheAmericans. Hougton Mifflin Company, 2005. s.v. "Opposition to Reconstruction. Foner, Eric. Give Me Libert: An AMerican History. New York: 2005. Pilgrim, David . "Ku Klux Klan." In The American Mosaic: The African American Experience. ABC-CLIO, 2010-.Accessed October 10, 2013. http://africanamerican.abc-clio.com/.

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