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Chapter 3 Section 3- The South During Reconstruction

Chapter 3 Section 3- The South During Reconstruction. During Reconstruction, Republicans dominated Southern politics. Support for the Republican Party came from African Americans.

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Chapter 3 Section 3- The South During Reconstruction

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  1. Chapter 3 Section 3- The South During Reconstruction

  2. During Reconstruction, Republicans dominated Southern politics.Support for the Republican Party came from African Americans.

  3. African Americans played an important role in Reconstruction politics, both as voters and as elected officials. In some states they contributed heavily to Republican victories.

  4. At the national level, 16 African Americans served in the House of Representatives and 2 in the Senate between 1869 and 1880.

  5. Most Southern whites opposed efforts to expand African Americans’ rights. Life soon became difficult for African Americans.

  6. Secret societies, such as the Ku Klux Klan, used fear and violence to deny rights to freed men and women. Wearing white sheets and hoods, Klan members killed thousands of African Americans.

  7. The KKK burned African American homes, schools, and churches.

  8. The Freedmen’s Bureau helped spread education- this was one of their main purposes.

  9. Generally African American and white students attended different schools- segregation

  10. Along with education, most freed people wanted land

  11. The most common form of farm work for freed people was sharecropping. In this system, a landowner rented a plot of land to a sharecropper, along with a crude shack, some seeds and tools, and perhaps a mule. In return, sharecroppers shared a percentage of their crops.

  12. After paying the landowners, sharecroppers often had little left to sell. End

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