sufficiency Sharecropping initially, white landowners attempted to force freedmen to sign contracts that would basically enslave them (Black Codes) forced contract signing failed because of black insistence on autonomy and changes in the postwar economy sharecropping- landlord provides seed and other needed farm supplies in return for a share of the harvest was part of white of freedom as the ability to southerners’ interpretation control their own destinies (white supremacy) without interference from the North or federal government was similar to the gang-labor system of the antebellum plantation allowed poor people to work a piece of land for themselves sharecropping freed landlords from responsibility for their workers crop-lien system- caused by sharecropping system rather than owing debt to banks, post-Civil War southerners owed money to local stores in mill towns without competition, stores were able to charge interests at 50 to 60 percent farmers forced to give merchants lien (claim) on their crops forced new landowners to lose their land farmers became dependent on cash crops, exhausting the soil forced the subsistence farmers of backcountry to change also were forced to fence in their animals (“fence laws”), causing widespread protests later, the backcountry people would become strong supporters of the populist movement this system did create a strong sense of community though also brought blacks and whites into close contact with one another, causing greater white supremacy movements The North During Reconstruction Greed and Corruption became less focused on ideals and civil rights, and more on money masters of patronage (giving jobs and government favors to supporters) like and replaced reformers like Roscoe Conklin James Blaine Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, and Benjamin Wade assisted by President brother-in-law, Jay Gould and James Fisk Grant’s cornered the gold market, making a huge profit Credit Mobilier affair- insiders gave stock to influential members of Congress to avoid investigation of the profits they were making from government subsidies and fraudulent contracts for building the transcontinental railroad Whiskey Ring- federal revenue agents conspired with the liquor industry and stole millions from the government in excise taxes by filing false tax reports Boss Tweed- local Democratic party leader Tweed stole $200 million from New York’s taxpayers The Election of 1872 Horace Greeley nominated by: Liberal Republicans wanted to break from the corruption and scandals of the rest of
Sharecropping initially, white landowners attempted to force freedmen to sign contracts that would basically enslave them (Black Codes) forced contract signing failed because of black insistence on autonomy and changes in the postwar economy sharecropping- landlord provides seed and other needed farm supplies in return for a share of the harvest was part of white southerners’ interpretation of freedom as the ability to control their own destinies (white supremacy) without interference from the North or federal government was similar to the gang-labor system of the antebellum plantation allowed poor people to work a piece of land for themselves sharecropping freed landlords from responsibility for their workers crop-lien system- caused by sharecropping system rather than owing debt to banks, post-Civil War southerners owed money to local stores in mill towns without competition, stores were able to charge interests at 50 to 60 percent farmers forced to give merchants lien (claim) on their crops forced new landowners to lose their land farmers became dependent on cash crops, exhausting the soil forced the subsistence farmers of backcountry to change also were forced to fence in their animals (“fence laws”), causing widespread protests later, the backcountry people would become strong supporters of the populist movement this system did create a strong sense of community though also brought blacks and whites into close contact with one another, causing greater white supremacy movements The North During Reconstruction Greed and Corruption became less focused on ideals and civil rights, and more on money masters of patronage (giving jobs and government favors to supporters) like Roscoe Conklin and James Blaine replaced reformers like Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, and Benjamin Wade assisted by President Grant’s brother-in-law, Jay Gould and James Fisk cornered the gold market, making a huge profit Credit Mobilier affair- insiders gave stock to influential members of Congress to avoid investigation of the profits they were making from government subsidies and fraudulent contracts for building the transcontinental railroad Whiskey Ring- federal revenue agents conspired with the liquor industry and stole millions from the government in excise taxes by filing false tax reports Boss Tweed- local Democratic party leader Tweed stole $200 million from New York’s taxpayers The Election of 1872 Horace Greeley nominated by: Liberal Republicans wanted to break from the corruption and scandals of the rest of sufficiency