1. Post Reconstruction Life
Bell Work:
1. What was the place called where Robert E Lee surrendered?
2. What was the purpose of the 14th Amendment?
3. Name why Johnson was going to be impeached?

2. Bright Future….. Black Success. . . . . Schools and education
Black Congressmen
Black Voting

3. 1876 Election. . . Hayes Election: and the Compromise of 1877
Election was Rutherford B. Hayes v. Samuel J. Tilden
Electoral College a virtual tie
Compromise of 1877

4. The South Would
Accept Hayes's presidency.
Respect blacks' rights.

5. The South Would. . .
The removal of all federal troops from the former Confederate States.
The appointment of at least one Southern Democrat to Hayes's cabinet. (David M. Key of Tennessee became Postmaster General.) Hayes agreed.
The construction of another transcontinental railroad using the Texas and Pacific in the
Legislation to help industrialize the South.

6. Change in the South
Old Southern leaders and ex-confederates were taking office again
What do you think will happen to African-American Rights??