1. Radical Republicans Decline Restricted Rights Industry in the “New South”

2. Radicals in Decline By the 1870’s, Radical Republicans were losing power. Corruption spread through politics. –Grant appointed his friends to positions. –People lost faith in Republicans. White southerners voted all democratic. The threat of violence kept African Americans from voting. Passed Amnesty Act – right to vote and hold office for all white southerners

3. Election of 1876 Democrats nominated Samuel Tilden and Republicans nominated Rutherford B. Hayes. Tilden won the popular vote, but not the electoral vote. As Inauguration Day came near, a special commission was set up to settle the crisis. –They chose Hayes because he had made a deal to end Reconstruction.

4. Political cartoon about the election

5. Impact of Reconstruction South remained a stronghold for the Democratic party. Black southerners slowly lost their political rights.

6. Restricted Rights Poll taxes – requiring voters to pay a fee each time they voted Literacy tests – required voters to read and explain a section of the Constitution. Grandfather clauses – law stated that if a voter’s father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867, the voter did not have to take a literacy test. –No African American could voted before 1868, so this assured all whites the right to vote. These laws restricted African Americans from voting.

8. Segregation Segregation – legal separation of races –Separated in schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, streetcars, playgrounds, hospitals, cemeteries Jim Crow laws – nickname for these rules Plessy v. Ferguson – the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal so long as facilities for blacks and whites were equal –However, this was never the case. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/

9. Industry in the “New South” Still farmed cotton, but used cotton in textile mills in the South. Tobacco, mining, steel, oil, and forestry industries grew. Still the South could not keep up with the growth in the North and West.