1. How did Reconstruction end? Notes #25

2. During Reconstruction, the Southern states became known as the Solid South because they consistently supported the Democratic Party.

3. In 1876, Samuel Tilden (a Democrat) won the popular vote to become president, but lost a disputed electoral vote to Rutherford B. Hayes (a Republican).
Samuel
Tilden

4. President Rutherford B.
Under the Compromise of 1877, the Democrats in Congress agreed to the election of Hayes as president . . .
President Rutherford B.
Hayes (1877–1881)

5. . . . and the Republicans in Congress promised to withdraw federal troops from the South, which ended Reconstruction in 1877.

6. After the end of Reconstruction, African Americans found that gaining equal rights was very difficult.

7. Jim Crow laws, voting restriction laws, and actions of the Ku Klux Klan limited the rights of African Americans in the South (until the 1960s).