1. The Grant Administration

2. Objective: To determine the causes for the end of Reconstruction.

4. The 1868 Republican Ticket

5. The 1868 Democratic Ticket

6. “Waving the Bloody Shirt” –Grant based his campaign on “waving the bloody shirt.” –This was based on an incident where Benjamin Franklin Butler supposedly waved a bloody shirt belonging to a victim of the KKK. –It was meant to keep alive bitter feelings against the South

9. 1868 Presidential Election

10. President Ulysses S. Grant

11. Grant Administration Scandals  Grant presided over an era of unprecedented growth and corruption. * Credit Mobilier Scandal. * Whiskey Ring. * The “Indian Ring.”

12. And They Say He Wants a Third Term

14. 15 th Amendment  Ratified in 1870.  The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.  The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.  Women’s rights groups were furious that they were not granted the vote!

15. The Failure of Federal Enforcement  Enforcement Acts of 1870 & 1871 [also known as the KKK Act].  “The Lost Cause.”  Redeemers (prewar Democrats and Union Whigs).

16. The Election of 1872  Rumors of corruption during Grant’s first term discredit Republicans.  Horace Greeley runs as a Democrat/Liberal Republican candidate.  Greeley attacked as a fool and a crank.  Greeley died on November 29, 1872!

17. 1872 Presidential Election

18. Northern Support Wanes  “Grantism” & corruption.  Panic of 1873 [6-year depression].

19. 1876 Presidential Tickets

20. “Regional Balance?”

21. 1876 Presidential Election

22. The Political Crisis of 1877  “Corrupt Bargain” Part II?

23. Hayes Prevails

24. Alas, the Woes of Childhood… Sammy Tilden—Boo-Hoo! Ruthy Hayes’s got my Presidency, and he won’t give it to me!

25. A Political Crisis: The “Compromise” of 1877

26. The Compromise of 1877 –In exchange for the Presidency, Hayes agreed to remove the Federal Troops from the South. –Thus, Tilden gave up his claims to the electoral votes and reconstruction ends in the South.