HIST 1305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Scalawag, Gabardine, Slaughter-House Cases
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Laws passed by southern governments- attempted to regulate lives of former slaves- granted marriage, possession of property, and court of law entree to blacks- denied blacks rights to testify against albumen. , serve in juries or militia , or vote - if blacks failed to sign yearbook labor contracts, they could be arrested and forced to piece of work for white landowners carpetbagger and scalawags. Temporarily divided the south into 5 war machine districts and called for the creation of new state governments- new state governments included black men with the right to vote- lasted until 1867-1877. Democrats who regained control of department of state with white vote legal age (tn, nc, lone-star. State )- redeemed the white south from corruption, misgovernment, and northern/black control wafture the bloody shirt. A campaign manoeuvre where republicans identi ed democrat with sezession and treason- blamed them for the civil war the free dman "s bureau.
