Successes and Failures of Reconstruction
Successes
A. How was South Carolina’s convention “truly revolutionary”?
B. What changes were made to South Carolina’s constitution?
C. How did South Carolina change as a result of the new government?
Use pgs 202-203 in your textbook and the following websites to answer the questions.
https://sites.google.com/site/lmsreconstruction/home/8-4-3-the-constitution-of-1868-and-the-people-who-created-it
http://www.sciway.net/afam/reconstruction/majorevents.html
http://www.sciway.net/afam/reconstruction/1868constitution.html
D. Who were some of the state legislators
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/black-leaders-during-reconstruction
E. What are the changes the new South Carolina legislature made to education and the tax system?
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/reconstruction/section4/section4_recon.html
Failures
F. What was the Hamburg Massacre?
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/hamburg-massacre-1876
http://www.screconstruction.org/Reconstruction/Sites_of_violence/Entries/1876/7/8_Hamburg_Massacre.html
G. Who was Wade Hampton and who were the Red Shirts?
H. Who were the "Redeemers" and what was their goal?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/06/22/south_carolina_wade_hampton_statue_red_shirt_death_squad_hero_commemorated.html
https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/textbooks/boundless-u-s-history-textbook/the-gilded-age-1870-1900-20/the-transformation-of-the-south-151/the-bourbons-and-the-redeemers-805-2255/