Do Now Explain the importance of the Reconstruction Act.

Reconstruction Part 2

Voting During Reconstruction African-American men were safely allowed to vote, and in some states were the majority Many would be elected to state offices in the 1860s and 1870s

Klu Klux Klan Founded in 1866 they used violence to try and prevent the freed men from voting

Impeachment of Johnson Congress attempts to impeach Johnson in 1868 but are unsuccessful This was mainly done because they disagreed with his politics They still have enough of a majority to overrule his veto

Sharecropping African Americans and poor whites would farm land that they did not own for a share of the profits They would constantly be in debt

Grant Presidency Ulysses S. Grant is elected President in 1868 He is very popular as a war hero In his second term in office members of his cabinet are accused of corruption

Reconstruction Becomes Expensive Peace and order is maintained in the South but only with military force This is very expensive to the federal government and becomes very unpopular in the 1870s

Election 1876 In 1876 Republican Rutherford B. Hayes runs against Democrat Samuel Tilden The Republican party has largely fallen out of favor The election is extremely close, Republicans promises to withdraw the federal troops from the south if Tilden concedes the election

End of Reconstruction With Federal troops leaving the south African Americans have no protection Segregation becomes the law of the land and is confirmed by the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision in 1896

Synthesis What did Reconstruction accomplish? Write a thesis.