Southern Government
(After Reconstruction)
Bellwork 3-14-15
1. The Jim Crow laws were designed to do what?
A. Give African-Americans the right to vote
B. Allow women to own property in their own name
C. Maintain African American representation in S.C. politics
D. Make racial segregation an accepted part of life in South
Carolina
Answer: D
2. During the Reconstruction Era, what was one reason for
the formation of the Ku Klux Klan?
A. Prevent former slaves from exercising their rights
B. Encourage immigration form Southern and Eastern Europe
C. Support the South during the Civil War
D.  Eliminate share cropping in the Southern States
Answer: A
Agenda
Notes/Discussion: Benjamin Tillman’s
Role in political leadership in SC
Key Focus:
— Benjamin Tillman (Populist Democrat)
Student Group Activity: Using informational text to
summarize the role of Tillman’s political leadership
in SC using a graphic organizer
Closure:Q & A using whiteboards
Independent Practice:
Agenda
Notes/Discussion:
Key Focus:
— Wade Hampton
— Redeemers/Bourbons
Student Group Activity: Using informational text to
summarize the role of Wade Hampton
Closure:
Independent Practice:
Quick Review
Discuss with your partner, then list the
successes and failures of the
Reconstruction
Focus Statement
8-5.4
Summarize the policies and actions of South
Carolina’s political leadership in implementing
discriminatory laws that established a system of racial
segregation, intimidation, and violence.
Review-Wade Hampton-Bourbons or
Redeemers
—  Ex-Confederate General
—  SC Governor – Won election by
coordinating a campaign of violence and
intimidation.
—  African Americans left to fend for
themselves
—  Objective restore or “redeem”
government to pre-war state- Little
taxes/Rich rule
—  Bourbon name of French royal family
restored to throne after French
Revolution
Bourbons
or
Redeemers
—  At the end of the Reconstruction this new group of men took control (wealthy
men or military leaders of the Confederacy)
—  Believed they had “redeemed” the state from corruption of the Radical
Reconstructionist
—  Gov. Wade Hampton: leader of this group & very out spoken critic of
Reconstruction
Wade Hampton’s Plan
—  Although Hampton was a Democrat, he supported Republican judges and
appointed blacks & whites to statewide offices
—  Hampton also encourage his followers to work on rebuilding the state instead
of focusing only on their resentment of the north
—  Hampton supported racial harmony, but not racial equality. He wanted to
avoid another confrontation with the North at all costs.
CFU
—  Why did Governor Wade Hampton and his followers refer to
themselves as the “Redeemers”
Answer: This conservative Democratic Party claimed to have
“redeemed” South Carolina from the Republicans.
Relevance
THE RULES JUST KEEP
CHANGING!!!!
Focus Statement
8-5.4
Summarize the policies and actions of South
Carolina’s political leadership in implementing
discriminatory laws that established a system of racial
segregation, intimidation, and violence.
Policy Defined
Policies- A plan or course of action
intended to influence and determine
decisions, actions and other matters.
(Also known as laws)
Thinking Critically
—  The Northerners lost interest in the
Reconstruction of the South by the 1870s.
—  Predict what you think happened to cause this
lost of interest?
Possible Answers:
Grew tired of the Black southerners problem
Disillusioned with their lack of political skills
Realize they were often not treated fairly in the
North sometimes either.
Benjamin Tillman
—  In South Carolina, poor white farmers accepted the leadership of
Ben Tillman because of his extraordinary oratorical and
political skills.
—  Tillman was a Populist because he appealed to the values and
needs of the common people against the Conservative elite.
—  Unlike his Populist counterparts elsewhere in the nation, Tillman
never supported the appeal for the vote of the African-American
farmers, who suffered as much or more from declining economic
conditions as did the white farmer.
Benjamin Tillman
—  This appeal led to an increase of violence and lynching against
African-Americans and opposition to the Populist Party in many
parts of the South.
—  In South Carolina, Tillman ran on a platform of white superiority
and later led the movement to further disenfranchise the AfricanAmerican voter.
—  Tillman’s bigotry and racist rhetoric led to the reemergence of the
terrorism of the Reconstruction era.
—  Soon violence and lynching increased and African Americans who
dared to protest were intimidated into silence.
—  Race baiting (the making of verbal attacks against members of a
racial group) increased during economic hard times as poor whites
took out their frustrations on an easy target.
Focus Statement
8-5.4
Summarize the policies and actions of South
Carolina’s political leadership in implementing
discriminatory laws that established a system of racial
segregation, intimidation, and violence.
8-5.4 Summarize the policies and actions of South Carolina’s
political leadership in implementing discriminatory laws that
established a system of racial segregation, intimidation,
violence.
—  Students will complete chart summarizing the policies and
actions of political leadership in SC after Reconstruction
—  I Do: The teacher will model using informational text to find
relevant information about policies and actions of political
leaders in SC after Reconstruction
—  We Do: Work together finding relevant information about policies
and actions of political leaders in SC after Reconstruction using
informational text and graphic organizer
—  You Do: The students will complete the graphic organizer
—  Students will then share responses
Practice
Guided
8-5.4 Summarize the policies and actions of South Carolina’s political leadership in
implementing discriminatory laws that established a system of racial segregation,
intimidation, and violence.
Policies/Actions Summary of Policies and Actions Government Plessy v/s Ferguson Jim Crow Laws Eight Box Law Poll Taxing Treatment of African Americans 8-5.4 Summarize the policies and actions of South Carolina’s political leadership in
implementing discriminatory laws that established a system of racial segregation, intimidation,
and violence.
Policies/Actions Government Plessy v/s Ferguson Jim Crow Laws Eight Box Law Summary of Policies and Actions 1895 Constitution replaced the Constitution of 1868
New Constitution established a literacy test for voting
court ruled separate but equal facilities
Supreme
satisfied the 14th amendment’s requirement for equal
protection Set social segregation into law, not just practice Poll Taxing Treatment of African Americans Required voters to place ballots for each
different office into a different box. A tax that had to be paid six months before any
election, according to the constitution of 1895
They were silenced by intimidation, and lynching
by white terrorists ex. Ku Klux Klan Focus Statement
8-5.4
Summarize the policies and actions of South
Carolina’s political leadership in implementing
discriminatory laws that established a system of racial
segregation, intimidation, and violence.
Do You Know??
Closure
—  Which Supreme Court ruled separate but equal
facilities satisfied the 14th amendment?
Plessey v/s Ferguson
—  Required voters to place ballots for each different
office into a different box?
Eight Box Law
—  A tax that had to be paid six months before any
election, according to the 1895 Constitution.
Poll Taxing
—  These series of laws are responsible for setting
social segregation into law
Jim Crow
•  The leader of the Populist Party
Benjamin Tillman
Independent Practice
—  Students will complete chart and review
responses
—  Students will evaluate the policies and actions of
Wade Hampton and Benjamin Tillman.
—  They are to develop a strong argument to defend
the actions and policies of one of the South
Carolinian democratic leaders after the
Reconstruction Era.
—  Be sure to use relevant information from your
notes, text, etc.