Civil War/Reconstruction Some Essential Questions

• What were the actual causes of the Civil War?• What were the actual Outcomes of the Civil

War?• What gains did Blacks achieve during the War

and Reconstruction?---or not?

Slavery and Back Again!

• Pre-Civil War• Politics and Legal Actions• Southern Reaction• Second Slavery• People• New Black Leadership/Black (Negro) Culture

Jim Crow

Pre Civil War

• Slave Trade• Abolitionist• Uncle Tom’s Cabin• Fugitive Slave Laws• Missouri Compromise• Kansas-Nebraska Act• Bleeding Kansas

Politics and Legal Action

• Succession/Legal?.....States Rights?• Reconstruction• Dred Scott• 13th Amendment• 14th Amendment• 15th Amendment• Civil Rights Act • Plessy v. Ferguson

Southern Reaction

• Riots/Violence/KKK• Black Codes• Voting----Disenfranchised• Literacy Test• Grandfather Clauses• Poll Tax• County Primaries• Threats Intimidation-----Klan

Return to Slavery

• Sharecropping• Tennant Farmers• Croppers• Land-Owners 1900 13.5 Million Acres owned by Blacks 100 M Acres Owned By Whites 1910 15.7M Acres for blacks----no reduction for Whites----huge reductions in the next decade.Crop Lien----Peonage