1. Chapter 18, Lesson 4 After Reconstruction

2. Reconstruction Ends Grant wins 1868 & 1872 elections Had little political experience, corruption Panic of 1873 started a depression Bad economy & scandal hurt Republicans 1874 elections in Congress went to Democrats (KKK) terrorized Afr Am Radical Republicans lost power

3. 1876 Election Rep choose Rutherford B Hayes, Gov of OH Dem choose Samuel Tilden, Gov of NY Tilden won popular vote Hayes won electoral vote Dem were mad, Rep withdrew troops who were in the South since Civil War, gone by 1877

4. Rise of New South Wanted to build industry Textile mills, tobacco companies, iron & steel Had cheap & reliable labor Railroad boom helped Wanted small farms, large remained instead Sharecropping stayed, cotton production Prices went

5. Voting Restrictions Southern leaders created poll tax: fee for voting to prevent Afr Am from voting Literacy test: required Afr Am to read Grandfather clause: many whites couldn’t pay or read & vote now so this allowed them to vote if dad or grandfather had

6. Jim Crow Laws Segregation: separation of races Plessy vs Ferguson (1896): LA law of separate train cars for Afr Am & whites was OK if equal Separate places were not equal Southern states spent more $ on white places Lynching: killing with a mob, often hanging

7. Leaving the South Exodusters-from the Bible book Exodus when the Jews escape slavery in Egypt, went to Kansas Buffalo Soldiers-served in Army during the western Indian Wars 1867-1896, named by Apache & Cheyenne Reconstruction helped rebuild, didn’t give total freedom but started movement