1. Reconstruction in South Carolina X. RECONSTRUCTION ENDS Part III.

2. Objectives Explain why Reconstruction ended Describe how the Southern economy expanded after Reconstruction Discuss how African Americans in the South lost rights

3. Radicals in Decline Radical Republicans lost power in Congress – northerners grew weary of trying to reform the South Republicans hurt by widespread corruption in President Grant’s government Amnesty Act – restored right to vote to nearly all white southerners

4. Pres. Election of 1876 Candidates – William Tilden (D), Rutherford B. Hayes (R) Twenty electoral votes in dispute (all but 1 were from 3 southern states still controlled by Republicans) Hayes makes secret deal to remove troops from states and becomes President

5. The End of Reconstruction

6. Industry and the “New South” Cotton production recovered Agricultural industries began – textile and tobacco industry Tapped mineral resources (phosphates, iron ore, coal, oil) Lumber industries

7. Restricting the Rights of African Americans Voting restrictions – poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause Racial segregation – Jim Crow laws Plessy v. Ferguson – Supreme Court ruled segregation was legal Violence continued

8. Results of Reconstruction 1. South gained a public education system and expanded its rail lines 2. African Americans became citizens