The End of Reconstruction
Reconstruction Tried to Suppress former Confederate leadership and the attitudes of rebellion against the United States.Suppress former Confederate leadership and the attitudes of rebellion against the United States. Secure full citizenship and civil rights for the former slaves.Secure full citizenship and civil rights for the former slaves.
Resistance by White Southerners The Ku Klux KlanThe Ku Klux Klan
Resistance by White Southerners PoliticalResistance
The Election of 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes, Republican Samuel J. Tilden, Democrat ? Who won?
The Election of 1876
Compromise of 1877 Hayes allowed to become president. Reconstruction ended—U.S. troops withdrawn from southern states.
The Rise of “Jim Crow”
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896