Bell Ringer

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Bell Ringer

• What are some hate groups that are active today?
• Why was the Ku Klux Klan formed and what did the
  group intended to accomplish?

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American History Chapter 5 Reconstruction

• IV. The End of Reconstruction

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Objectives

• Learn about tactics used by the Ku Klux Klan to
  spread terror throughout the South.
• Find out why Reconstruction ended.
• Review the major successes and failures of
  Reconstruction.

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A) Setting the Scene

• 1866 KKK started
• Choose Nathan Bedford Forrest to be the first
  grand wizard
• In 1868 murdered 300 people in Arkansas and 1,000
  in Louisiana
• ½ of the adult male population of New Orleans
  were Klan members

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B) Spreading Terror

• Klan intimidated Republican voters
• Goal was to keep blacks as submissive laborers
• Burning crosses lynching
• Enforcement Act of 1870 banned the use of
  terror, force, or bribery to prevent people from
  voting because of their race
• Military went after them within a year the KKK
  is virtually wiped out (Sheridan)

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C) Reconstruction Ends

• Four main reasons why Reconstruction ended
• Corruption symbol of Reconstuction
• The economy Southern debt increased, economic
  downturn in 1873
• Violence Southerners used violence on freedmen
  when soldiers left
• Democrats return to power ex-Confederates become
  powerful Democrats
• Solid South Democrat voting bloc in the South
  reversed many laws of the Republicans
• Supreme Court gave power back to the states
  limiting the Civil War Amendments
• 18) Compromise of 1877 Democrats would allow
  Hayes to be President if he removed troops from
  the South and ended Reconstruction

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Successes and Failures of Reconstruction

• Successes
• Union is restored
• South and North economy grows
• 14th and 15th Amendments passed
• Freedmens Bureau
• South starts mandatory education

• Failures
• South hate Republicans
• South slow to industrialized
• After troops leave blacks loose all rights
• Cycle of poverty
• North and South still racists

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Paragraph Synthesis

• Using these 5 vocabulary words, write a paragraph
  summary of the section. No definitions.
• Ku Klux Klan
• Enforcement Act of 1870
• Solid South
• Compromise of 1877
• Reconstruction

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Review

• What tactics did the Ku Klux Klan use to spread
  terror throughout the South?
• Why did reconstruction end?
• What were the major successes and failures of
  Reconstruction?