Standard
SS8H6c
Analyze the impact of Reconstruction on Georgia
and other southern states, emphasizing
Freedmen’s Bureau; sharecropping and tenant
farming; Reconstruction Plans; 13th , 14th, and 15th
amendments to the Constitution; Henry McNeal
Turner and black legislators; and the Ku Klux Klan.
Construction
Reconstruction
Freedman’s Bureau
• Federal agency created after the Civil War.
• Purpose was to help the freed slaves in transition
from slavery to freedom.
• It also helped poor whites.
• Focus on clothing, food, education and jobs.
A Bureau agent stands
between armed groups of
Southern whites and
Freedmen in this 1868
picture from Harper's Weekly
Sharecropping and Tenant Farming
• South was still agricultural after the Civil War.
• No slaves but landowners still needed laborers
• Sharecroppers farmed land for landowners, gave
them part of harvest as rent. Landowners gave
credit for supplies but had to be paid back.
Sharecroppers stayed poor.
• Tenant farmers owned equipment, paid rent for
land. Often they made a small profit.
13th Amendment
• Amendment to the US Constitution that banned
slavery.
14th Amendment
• Amendment to the US Constitution that granted
citizenship to all men born in the United States. It
banned any states from denying any citizen equal
protection of the law.
15th Amendment
• Amendment to the US Constitution that gave all
male citizens the right to vote.
Reconstruction
• Run by Abraham Lincoln then Andrew Johnson.
• Plan tried to rebuild the South without overly
punishing it.
• States were re-admitted to the Union if 10% of the
people would declare loyalty to the USA and would
ratify the 13th Amendment.
• Congress felt this was too lenient. It forced states to
ratify the 14th and 15th Amendments.
Henry McNeal Turner and other Black
Legislators
• Because they were now represented, 29 African
Americans were elected to the Georgia legislature,
including AME preacher Henry McNeal Turner. Three
African Americans were elected to the Georgia
Senate.
• 1868- Georgia government determined the
constitution did not give blacks the right to hold
office.
• Black legislators were removed from office.
• Blacks made up a large proportion of the
Republican Party.
Ku Klux Klan
• A terrorist organization formed during
Reconstruction.
• Their mission was to keep blacks from exercising
their new rights.
• They accomplished this through threats, beatings,
and murders (especially lynchings)
Standard
SS8H7a
Evaluate the impact of the Bourbon Triumvirate,
Henry Grady, International Cotton Exposition, Tom
Watson and the Populists, Rebecca Latimer Felton,
the 1906 Atlanta Riot, the Leo Frank Case, and the
county unit system had on Georgia during this
period.
Bourbon Triumvirate
• White Democrats, Alfred Colquitt, Joseph Brown,
and John Gordon in the years 1872-1890
• Wanted to improve Georgia by developing industry
more than agriculture.
• Wanted better relations with the North to open new
businesses and markets.
• They were white supremacists.
• Lost power because of racism and
mismanagement of the Convict Lease System.
Henry Grady
• Considered the “Spokesman of the New South”
• Eloquent writer and speaker
• Tried to convince northerners that Georgia had
changed and coming here would be a great
investment.
International Cotton Exposition
• Held in 1881, 1887, and 1895, fairs were set up in
Atlanta to display new technology in agriculture.
• Fairs attracted money and investment to Georgia’s
economy.
• Very successful
Tom Watson and the Populists
• Farmers worked together to solve problems of low
prices for crops and high costs of transportation.
• This was called populism.
• Tom Watson supported rural families
• He helped pass the Rural Free Delivery Bill, giving
rural families mail service.
Rebecca Latimer Felton
• Influential in ending Convict Lease System and
breaking the Bourbon Triumvirate.
• Also, influential in starting Prohibition (banning
alcohol).
• Wanted equal rights for races and genders.
• First woman to serve in US Senate.
• Was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement.
1906 Atlanta Riot
• False rumors said black men were attacking white
women.
• White men responded with violent acts against
blacks.
• This created a bad image for Atlanta as the rest of
the country realized the magnitude of racial
violence in the south.
Leo Frank Case
• 1915 a Jewish man, Leo Frank, was tried and
convicted of killing a 14 year old girl working with
him in a pencil factory.
• Evidence did not support the conviction.
• Was sentenced to death but Governor Slaton
changed the sentence to life in prison.
• Racist Marietta businessmen kidnapped him from
jail and hung him in Marietta (near Big Chicken)
• Example of anti-Semitism- racism against Jews.
Turn to page 299
Freedman’s Bureau
• Federal agency created after the Civil War.
• Purpose was to help the freed slaves in transition
from slavery to freedom.
• It also helped poor whites.
• Focus on clothing, food, education and jobs.
• Set up 4000 primary schools
• $400,000 to establish teacher training centers
• Helped to establish Morehouse College
Project
• Week 1- With a partner, create a poster illustrating
and listing information for all standards covered in
class this week.
• You may use your notes, the text, or your device for
information
• Draw basic symbolic pictures to illustrate the
standards (for example, for Tom Watson you could
draw an envelope for a letter) or use the printed
pictures.
• .
Project Options-AC Classes
• Student will create a PowerPoint to explain or illustrate the
standards we have covered in class that week. Each slide
should include at least one appropriate illustration
• Student will create a test covering the standards for that
week. Questions can be multiple choice, True/False, and/or
matching. In addition, the student will create review cards for
the test (question on front/answer on back) and provide an
answer key. These may be on index cards or on Quizlet.
• In a group of no more than 4 students, create a review game
that covers all standards (see instructions for more information)
• Student will create a script and an animated character using
Go Animate. The script will cover the standards learned in
class that week.