1861-1865



After Effects

  • Emancipation of the Slaves
  • A ruined southern economy
  • Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
  • Jim Crow Laws designed to deny blacks civil rights
  • Increased animosity between North and South
  • Large numbers of Civil War heroes elected 1868-1885

Jim Crow Laws

Tobacco, Southern Cash Crop


Abraham Lincoln


Ulysses S. Grant

Andrew Johnson

Rutherford. B. Hayes

Picking Cotton, Southern Cash Crop


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