American History Part 1

Front 1

The lost cause

Back 1

• More than 258,000 confederate soldiers had died in the war
• Thousands returned home after the war sick and wounded
• White southerners began to romanticize the “lost Causes” and its leaders and to look back nostalgically at the south as it had existed before the war.
• They now were trying to protect what they had left at least from the now vanished world

Front 2

Black Codes

Back 2

• Gave whites substantial control over former slave
• The codes authorized local officials to apprehend unemployed African American
• Fine them for vagrancy, and hire them out to private employer to satisfy the fine
• some codes forbade blacks to own or lease farms or take any jobs other than as plantation worker or domestic servants

Front 3

14th ammendment

Back 3

• any State cant deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Front 4

15th ammendment

Back 4

• Forbade the states and the federal government to deny suffrage to any citizen on account of “race, color or previous condition of servitude”

Front 5

Scalawags

Back 5

• White Republicans
• Never felt comfortable in the democratic party
• Planter of business men interested in economic development of the region
• Others where farmers who lived in remote areas where there had been little or no slavery and who hoped the republican program of internal improvements would help end their economic isolation