Reconstruction Efforts
Republican PartySouth Carolina Constitution of 1868
-Accepted the 14th and 15th amendments -Black majority in the Assembly representing population -Six blacks in U.S. House of Representatives -Characterized as ignorant ex-slaves by Democrats Public Education and Health Care -Schools for black and white students -Institutions for the blind and deaf -Increased taxes Northern Philanthropists Philanthropy: promoting the welfare through generous donations of money, time, or services -Black Colleges Built: Claflin College, Benedict College, Allen University, Avery Institute -Northern Aid Society: Penn School to educate freedmen |
Democratic PartySouth Carolina Constitution of 1865
-Rejected the 14th and 15th amendments -Forced to write a new constitution by military general -Most whites boycotted the constitutional convention Anger Over Increased Taxes for Education -Blamed on corrupt carpetbag government Creation of Vigilante Terror Groups Engaged in hurrassment, intimidation, and murder against Republicans -Ku Klux Klan -Red Shirts -Riflemen 1876 Hamburg Massacre in Aiken County -Showed the intensification of white backlash to redeem state from Republicans |
End of Reconstruction
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