Lecture on Southern Resistance to Reconstruction and the End of Reconstruction

Overview

• Focus on US History Content Standard 3.4
  • Southern resistance to Reconstruction
  • The end of Reconstruction

Key Terms

• Carpetbaggers: Northern individuals who moved to the South post-Civil War, often seen negatively by Southern whites.
• Scalawags: Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party post-war.
• Freedmen: Previously enslaved individuals who were freed during and after the Civil War.
• Ku Klux Klan: White supremacist group that emerged during Reconstruction to oppose civil rights for African Americans.
• Home Rule: Term used for the re-establishment of white Southern Democratic control post-Reconstruction.
• Redeemer Governments: White Southern Democratic governments post-Reconstruction aiming to reassert control.
• Jim Crow Laws: Laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States post-Reconstruction.
• Plessy v. Ferguson: 1896 Supreme Court case that upheld racial segregation and established the