reconstruction fails mr. johnson apush hopewell high school
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RECONSTRUCTION FAILS
Mr. Johnson
APUSH
Hopewell High School
Presidential Reconstruction:Ulysses S. Grant• Grant’s Views
– Supported ______ occupation but urged ______ Republicans not to be harsh and retributive toward the south
– Supported rights of ______
• Election of 1868– Fusion of white ________
and black ____________ helped Grant win many votes in south
– Lingering resentment from the Civil War• “Waving the _______ shirt”• “Vote as you _____”
• Grant’s Policies– ______ Bill against KKK
terror– Numerous ______: Whisky
Ring, Credit Mobilier, Indian Ring
– Defeated Democrats & Liberal Republican reformers in _____ election
– End of ________’s Bureau– _______ of 1873– ________ issues: railroads,
settlement & Indian Wars– ___________ of remaining
southern states
African Americans in Reconstruction
• Education– __________’s Bureau schools– Establishment of first black ______
in the south
• Families– Some freedmen traveled in search
of lost ___________– __________ were legalized by
Freemen’s Bureau
• Political Life– ________ were the pillars of many
black communities– Black voters faced terror from
white _________ groups, but elected the first black senators (Revels) and congressmen (Bruce)
– Frederick _______ became a leading voice supporting full racial equality through passage of ___th and ___th amendments and serving as ambassador to __________
• Economic Life– ____________ and
wartime ____________ had altered southern economy
– Black codes sought to restore pre-Civil War ______ system and ____ relations• _________ laws and labor
_______• _________ leasing
– Many blacks became __________ or ______ farmers who didn’t own the land they worked, trapped in a cycle of ______ peonage
Home Rule, Redemption& the Solid South• Robert E. Lee
– Urged Southerners to _______ and _______ the Union
– Served as president of ___________ College (now Washington & Lee University)
– Emphasized the importance of _______ to the nation’s future
• White supremacists created barriers to black _________– _________ taxes…– _________ tests…– …____________ clauses
exempted white voters– _____, White League and Red
Shirts intimidated black voters and white scalawags
• Emergence of the “_______ South”– Ex-Confederates became
prominent _________ leaders
– Grant-era _____________ weakened Republican Party
– Conservative Democratic “_______” governments took control of southern states in 1870s
– South became closely _______ with Democratic Party through 1964
The Compromise of 1877& the Legacy of Reconstruction• Disputed election of 1876 led to
_____________ of 1877– Rutherford _______ (R) - 185– Samuel __________ (D) - 184
• Hayes agreed to concessions for southern Democrats– Appointment of Democrats to
________– Funding for southern ___________
and industry– Removal of federal _________
• End of ______________• _________ ______ decisions
severely limited the impact of Reconstruction Amendments– Slaughter-House Cases, 1873– Civil Rights Cases, 1883– Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
• Legalized _____________• __________ but equal
• Successes of Reconstruction– Slavery was ________ and the south
was _____________ into the union– _______-term successes on issues of
civil rights– Reconstruction __________
established principles that were stalled for many decades but eventually became the basis for _____ decisions upholding civil rights
• Failures of Reconstruction– Social and economic patterns
remained largely _______________– African Americans were denied full
rights of citizenship under the “____ ______” system
– The south remained the ________ region of the country for the next 100 years
– The broken promises of Reconstruction were not addressed until the African American _______ ______ movement in the mid-20th century
“The North Won the War;the South Won the Peace”