1. Reconstruction
Ends

2. Grant’s Presidency Grant won election in 1868 and re-election in 1872
Presidency plagued with issues
not a politician

3. Economic Depression Scandals Panic of 1873 Corruption
Grant’s Problems
Panic of 1873
Corruption

4. Democrats gain control of Congress
Grant’s Presidency
Democrats gained control of the House of Representatives and won many former Radical Republican’s seats in the Senate in the elections of 1874
Democrats gain control of Congress

5. Election of 1876
Republican
Democrat

7. Election of 1876 Special commission awarded disputed votes to Hayes
“Corrupt Bargain” Part II?
“Corrupt Bargain” Part II?

8. Election of1876
Hayes Wins!!
Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes won the election of 1876 after a special commission had to settle an issue over the Electoral College votes.
Sammy Tilden—Boo-Hoo! Ruthy Hayes’s got my Presidency, and he won’t give it to me!

9. Reconstruction Ends Compromise of 1877
Democrats agreed to accept Hayes’ victory if all remaining federal troops were removed from the South.

10. Reconstruction is over!!
Reconstruction Ends
Compromise of Democrats agreed to accept Hayes’ victory if all remaining federal troops were removed from the South.
RECONSTRUCTION OFFICIALLY ENDS!
Reconstruction is over!!

11. Democrats Take Back the South
Redeemers- Democrats who won elections in Southern States

12. Democrats Take Back the South
African Americans were kept from voting:

13. Democrats Take Back the South
African Americans were kept from voting:
Poll Tax
Poll Tax- a special tax people had to pay in order to vote.
$ paid to vote

14. Democrats Take Back the South
African Americans were kept from voting:
Literacy Tests
Literacy Test- voters had to be able to read and explain parts of the Constitution in order to vote.
Must read to vote

15. Democrats Take Back the South
Whites were exempt from taxes and tests:
Grandfather Clause
If this guy could vote...
Grandfather Clause- allowed men whose fathers or grandfathers voted to be exempt from the poll tax and literacy test.
Allowed white men to vote but not blacks

16. Segregation in the South

17. Segregation in the South
Segregation- separation of the races
Jim Crow Laws- segregation laws

18. Segregation in the South
Plessey v. Ferguson:
1896- Segregation okay
Plessy V. Ferguson Supreme Court ruling: segregation is okay
Separate but equal?

19. The Legacy of Reconstruction
The South’s economy was rebuilt
But
It was still based on agriculture and the majority of people were poor
African Americans gained greater equality and power in government
It did not last for long