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End of Reconstruction

End of Reconstruction. Ulysses S. Grant. Elected President in 1868 as a Republican Victory made possible by African American votes. Ulysses S. Grant. 15th Amendment passed to ensure that voting rights not be denied because of race. Blacks take political office in South. Blanche Bruce

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End of Reconstruction

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  1. End of Reconstruction

  2. Ulysses S. Grant • Elected President in 1868 as a Republican • Victory made possible by African American votes

  3. Ulysses S. Grant • 15th Amendment passed to ensure that voting rights not be denied because of race

  4. Blacks take political office in South • Blanche Bruce • First black senator from the state of Mississippi

  5. Southerners curtail civil rights • Ku Klux Klan • Terrorist group that intimidated African Americans from exercising their rights

  6. Southerners curtail civil rights • Black Codes • laws that restricted the political and economic activities of African Americans.

  7. New Labor Systems in the South

  8. Sharecropping • Former slaves farmed someone else’s land and paid the landowner at least one third of the crop.

  9. Sharecropping • Plantation owners discovered sharecropping was cheaper for them than slavery

  10. Tenant Farmers • Former Slaves who used cash to rent farms on plantations

  11. Election of 1872 • Radical Republicans began to lose power and control of Congress.

  12. Election of 1876 • Republican Rutherford B Haynes lost the popular vote to Samuel Tilden • Electoral College vote was in dispute

  13. Compromise of 1877 • Southern Democrats promised to give Haynes their electoral votes if he removed the military from the South • Haynes agreed and removed all federal troops when he took over as President

  14. Compromise of 1877 • Southern Democrats take over the South • Southern Democrats begin return to national power. • Reconstruction is over. • The door is open to the “Jim Crow Era”.

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