efforts to borrow sufucient funds to begin businesses; attempts to raise money to pay taxes on their land; societies such as KKK which were for the purpose of protecting the women; hiring former slaves or house workers to drive the women where they needed to go.
Scalawags
Reconstruction collapsed around 1877, when Southern Democrats gained power in all the former Confederate states. The Southern Democrats opposed the reforms of Reconstruction and deprived African-Americans of the political rights they had gained during Reconstruction.
African Americans remained disenfranchised
Poll taxes and literacy tests
Initially, President Andrew Johnson favored a lenient approach toward the South during Reconstruction, seeking to quickly reintegrate Southern states without strict conditions. However, as resistance to Reconstruction efforts grew among Southern whites and violence against freedmen escalated, Johnson's stance became increasingly contentious. He often clashed with Congress, which sought to impose more stringent measures to protect African American rights and ensure a more equitable society. Ultimately, his opposition to these congressional efforts led to a deepening divide between him and legislative leaders, undermining the Reconstruction process.
Southern military leaders weren't allowed to hold office during reconstruction.
cotton and tabacco
The Republicans gain control of Southern state governments during reconstruction by federal forces. This happen from the railroad schemes in the South.
The Republicans gain control of Southern state governments during reconstruction by federal forces. This happen from the railroad schemes in the South.
Scalawags
sharecroppers
President Andrew Jackson restricted African American rights during reconstruction. Blacks were excluded from southern politics. Radical Reconstruction occurred from 1867 to 1877
Scalawags.
Carpetbaggers.
Railroads
cotton and tobaco
The New State Constitution was successful during Reconstruction. It made the southern states write new laws that outlawed slavery. former slaves feared less of the southern states.