1. What does this mean for America?
End of Reconstruction
What does this mean for America?

2. Learning Targets
Success Criteria
Understand how the end of Reconstruction changed lives.
I can list and describe at least four ways that impacted African Americans at the end of Reconstruction.
Understand the economic issues of the end of Reconstruction.
I can give examples of high and low people in the economy after Reconstruction.

3. Election of 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) vs. Sam Tilden (Democrat
Fraud?
Electoral Commission
8 Republicans and 7 Democrats
Compromise of 1877
Hayes would get presidency
Withdraw remaining troops from the south
Cabinet position
Fed. Leg. Supporting industry to South
Appoint more Democrats to Southern positions

4. Northern Support Wanes
“Grantism” & corruption.
Panic of 1873 [6-year depression].
Economic bubble popped
Concern over westward expansion and Indian wars.
Sand Creek Massacre
Battle of Little Big Horn
Wounded Knee
Dawes Act
Expansion
Homestead Act -12o acres

5. Sharecroppers

6. Implications for African Americans
Sharecropping
1875 Civil Rights Act
Supreme Court- unconstitutional 1883
KKK
Enforcement Acts of
Known as the KKK Acts
Lynching
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
“Separate but Equal”
It will NEVER be equal.
Contradicts the 14th Amendment

7. Jim Crow laws What does it mean? System of segregation
Local and state laws
Literacy tests
For voting purposes
Poll taxes
Grandfather Clause

8. New Business Culture
Laissez Faire  the ideology of the Industrial Age.
Individual as a moral and economic ideal.
Individuals should compete freely in the marketplace.
The market was not man-made or invented.
No room for government in the market!

9. Captains of Industry or Robber Barons??
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Steel Co.