C17 Sec 4 Change in the South During the Grant administration, Northerners began to believed it was time for the South to solve its own problems. Southerners protested “bayonet rule” the use of federal troops to support Reconstruction governments. Democrats steadily regained control of Southern governments as support for Radical Reconstruction policies decreased.

Republican Revolt, the Republicans were split over the issue of corruption and Reconstruction. Democrats Regain Power, 1872 the Amnesty Act, which pardoned most former Confederates. Nearly all white Southerners could vote and hold office.

The election of 1876, Hayes v Tilden, election wound up in the Supreme Court as tie. Compromise of 1877, Hayes declared the winner, Republicans agreed to remove the military from the Southern states. New Policy Hayes announced his intention of letting Southerners handle racial issues. Reconstruction came to an end.

Democrats in Control, in some regions, the ruling Democrats were the same large landowners and other groups that help power before the war. However a new group began to emerge, made up of businessmen, merchants and bankers. This group embraced industry and economic development. Change in the South, after Reconstruction, the South experienced a political shift.

These Democrats called themselves “Redeemers” because they had “redeemed” the South from Republican rule. The Redeemers adopted conservative policies as well as cut funding to many social services.

Rise of the “New South, “ forward- looking Southerners were convinced that their region must develop a strong industrial economy. Lost the war because Southern industry could not compete with that of the North. The South needed to “out Yankee the Yankees.”

Industry in the South made dramatic gains in the 1880s Southern industry grew as a result of a cheap and reliable workforce. Most factory workers put in long hours for low wages. Agriculture still remained the South’s main economic driver.

The Fifteenth Amendment prohibited any state from denying an individual the right to vote because of race. Southern leaders, however found ways to get around the amendment and prevent African Americans from voting. Poll taxes, literacy tests and grandfather clauses. A Divide Society As Reconstruction ended, true freedom for African Americans became a distant dream.

The segregation of the races in almost every public place. Segregation was upheld by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson The court ruled that segregation was legal as long as African Americans had access to facilities equal to those of whites Jim Crow Laws

Reconstructions Impact Reconstruction was both a success and a failure. It allowed the South to rebuild its economy. Yet much of the South remained agricultural and poor. African Americans soon lost the gains that they had made.