African-American History

The Ku Klux Klan orginated in Pulaski, Tennesse and was begun by mostly former Confederate Soldiers. They had originally been attacking blacks AND whites that were Radical Republicans. Immigrants were also a target because they were considered the reason that the Radical Republican political party had began. Then the hatred of the Ku Klux Klan had been directed to the blacks to prevent them from voting.

Freedmen were dissappointed by the 15th amendment.

A plan to rebuild the South

the 1848 discovery of gold in california

An agreement in Congress so that President Hayes could take office

to make them accept white culture by cuttling ties with their own culture

By providing important stuff like education

President Grant helped to pass The Enforcements Act to prevent Southerners from using fear to shut African Americans out of the political process.

Major economic problems began to take hold in the 1870s.

The buffalo provided a variety of resources.

The black codes provided a steady source of labor for whites who owned farms, because African Americans who did not have jobs were made to serve time as forced laborers.

he was the only former slave to rule over the u.s. senate.! APEX!

Poll taxes and literacy tests

The western United States

it was easier on former confederate states

Move them at all costs

They provided services that whites would not because of segregation

Destroy traditional native american life

Women demanded the right to vote.

Life in the west was not tied to traditional rules of society

To limit african americans the right to vote

Their labor could be sold to a business owner(apex)

There were more african americans than whites in population and in state government