After Reconstruction USH-3.4

I. Violence Vigilante groups like Ku Klux Klan organize to intimidate blacks AAs vote only w/protection from US troops Never enough troops to protect everyone When troops leave, AAs are abandoned

II. Redeemers During Reconstruction: Grant administration is corrupt Depression in North Congress tires of fixing the South White Southerners were mostly Democrat Refused to vote Used violence instead In Election of 1876, they attempt to take back the South by voting

II. Redeemers Election of 1876 is disputed between Hayes (R) and Tilden (D) Compromise says Hayes will be president IF he removes the federal troops He agrees No protection for AAs Reconstruction is over

III. Mistreatment Southern states slowly take away the 14th and 15th Amendments Poll taxes Pay to vote 8 Box Law Label each ballot box w/name Can’t read so can’t vote accurately Literacy test reading test to vote Poor, illiterate whites use grandfather clause If your grandfather voted before 1860, you could vote w/o the tax or test NO blacks voted before 1860

III. Mistreatment Federal gov’t went from protecting to discriminating Supreme Court upheld “separate but equal” from Plessy v Ferguson Separate facilities are acceptable as long as they are equal Eliminates the 14th Allows for Jim Crow laws Laws that restrict the freedoms of black people

IV. Economics Cotton wore out soil and prices fell Hardest on sharecroppers Many textile mills open in the South in the 1880s and AAs are not hired Most stay poor Some move North