The First Vote: Poor Freedman | Reconstruction 360

This new voter has very little money or belongings, but he has gained his freedom. After passage of the Reconstruction Acts, thousands of politically energized freedmen, rich and poor, registered to vote, aligning themselves overwhelmingly with Republicans.

Standards

• 8.4.CC Analyze continuities and change in the African American experience in the period of Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras within South Carolina.
• USHC.2.CX Contextualize the perspectives on the role of the federal government in securing natural rights during the period 1830–1877.