The End of Reconstruction

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The End of Reconstruction

• Chapter 18
• Section 3

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Protecting African-American Rights

• Key ? How did the Republican Party try to
  advance civil rights for African Americans?
• 1868 Ulysses S. Grant won the
  presidency.(Republican)
• Electoral votes votes in the Electoral College,
  which elects the president and vice president.
• Freedmen voted him in.

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The Fifteenth Amendment

• Amendment formal change to the constitution.
• Fifteenth amendment- stated that citizens could
  not be stopped from voting on account of race,
  color, or previous condition of servitude.(did
  not apply to women or Native Americans)

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Grant Fights the Klan

• Ku Klux Klan continued terrorizing African
  Americans in the South.
• Grant asked Congress to pass tough law against
  the Klan.
• Federal marshals then arrested thousand of
  Klansmen and attacks declined.

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Reconstruction Weakens

• Key ?- How did Reconstruction lose its strength?
• Grant choose army friends and wifes relatives in
  government positions.
• Scandals of tax evasion bribery.
• Some Republicans broke away and formed the new
  Liberal Republican Party. Less effective in
  imposing tough Reconstruction policies on the
  South.

6
The Panic of 1873

• Eastern banks made some bad loans and ran out of
  money, which caused the Panic of 1873. Banks
  closed across the land.
• Stock Market place where shares of ownership in
  companies are bought and sold. It collapsed.
• Brought on Depression a time of low business
  activity and high unemployment. Lasted 5 years.
• Nation lost interest in the South and blamed
  Republicans for the crisis.

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Civil Rights Reversals

• Supreme Court began reversing some of the Civil
  Rights progress.
• U.S. v. Cruikshank federal government could not
  punish individuals who violated the civil rights
  of African Americans only states could. (1876)
• U.S. v. Reese ruled in favor of white
  Southerners who barred African Americans from
  voting. 15th amendment didnt mean they could use
  other reasons from keeping African American to
  vote.

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Reconstruction Ends

• Key ? What finally led to the end of
  Reconstruction?
• Compromise a settlement in which both parties
  gave up somethings they wanted.
• Compromise of 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes became
  president, but Republicans had to give up a lot.
  
• See pg.e 587

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The Legacy of Reconstruction

• Reunification of the Union.
• African Americans legal situation changed.
• Slavery was outlawed.
• Federal government did not enforce 14th 15th
  amendment.
• African Americans still faced widespread violence
  and prejudice.
• Lack of land ownership and economic opportunity
  kept African American in poverty.