Introduction
In this paper we will be talking about the reconstruction policies. The main ones we will be looking at is Civil Rights Act of 1866 and Ku Klux Klan Act of 1875.
Task
This assiment is about finding out what started the Civil Right Act in 1866 and 1875 and why did the KKK start and where did it start. Also the Freedman's Bureal.
Process
The process of the research is by sharing the reconstrustion policies between the both of us.
Evaluation
Freedman Bureau
- 1865-1872
- Several generations of a family are pictured on Smiths Plantation, South Carolina, Ca 1862.(libray of congress).
- The bareau was established in the war department in 1865 to undertake the reliet effort and the unprecedented social reconstruction that would bring freedpeople to full citizenship.
Civil Right Act of 1866
- Andrew Johnson took over after Lincoln was killed.
- Johnson not only vetoed the bill but he also attacked it as race legislation that would encourage a life of wasteful laziness for Southern blacks.
Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
- The KKK engaged in terrorist raids against African-Americans and white Republicans at night.
- In 1871, the KKK led to nine South Carolina courties being placed under martial law and thousand arrests.
Civil Rights Act of 1875
- The last biracial U.S. Congress of the 19th Century passed ths Civil Right Act of thisw year.
- This act protected all Americans, regardless of race or color of your skin.
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment
13th- Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, excapt as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been dully convicted, shall exist within th United States, or any place subject to their jurisdicyion.
14th- All persons born or naturalized in the United States. The protection of civil rights to all Americans.
15th- Right of citizen of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previus condition of servitude.
Compare and Contrast
| Agricultural | Commercial |
| Cotton | Railroads |
| Tabacoo | Factories |
| Farming | Steel |
| corn, wheat | textiles |
| beans |
| Urban | Rural |
| white rich people | Slaves |
| Busy, faster | Plantaion Owners |
| Better Housing | Shring Cropping |
| Education | Tenant Farming |
| Empowered | Oppressed |
| Rights | Rocial Segregation |
| Made Laws | Black Code |
| Money | Ku Klux Klan |
| Control Wages | Low Wages |
| White Supremancy | NO RIGHTS |
Black Codes: Any code of law that defined and especially limited therights of formers slaves after the Civil War.
Booker T. Washington: Was African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to the presidents of the United States.
E.B. Dubois: Was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and aditor.
Abraham Lincoln: Was the 16th President of the United States.
Andrew Johnson: Was the 17th President of the United States. Became president because Lincoln got assassnated.
Ku Klux Klan: These people were killing black people because they thought only white people should be living and they were always killing at night. They would burn houses, hang black people, ect.
Sharecropping: Came to define the method of land lease that would evetually become a new form of slavery.
Tenant Farming: A farmer who works land owned by someone else.
Conclusion
In conclusion, this prodject was really fun and we learned a lot of things that we didnt know. This really helped us know what things ment in those days and why things happen the way it did. Between the five topics we talked about, gave the blacks the freedom they have now and the willing to become anything they want to in the world today.