HIST 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reconstruction Era, White Supremacy, Sharecropping
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Lecture 6, exam 2: what do freed people value about freedom, what are different approaches to reconstruction? (presidential vs. Tenant farms land in return for share of crop. 10% of voting population must take loyalty oath. Accepts end of slavery, but favors maintaining white supremacy. Black codes- restriction on african american"s property and gun ownership etc. Blacks had to have a labor contract stating who they worked for and they would be arrested if they didn"t have one and would be put into forced labor. Invalidates state governments created under presidential reconstruction. Write new state constitutions that guarantee black suffrage. State voters must approve, then congress must approve. 15th amendment- vote can"t be denied because of race or previous servitude but they found a loophole by giving former slaves a literacy test, etc. Compromise of 1877- hayes is elected president and agrees to withdraw troops from the south.
