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RECONSTRUCTIONRECONSTRUCTIONSECTION 4SECTION 4
Why did Why did Reconstruction end?Reconstruction end?
Blacks couldn’t achieve Blacks couldn’t achieve EEconomic conomic stabilitystability
White White RResistanceesistance Growing Northern Growing Northern IIndifferencendifference
WHY? WHY?
CCorruption in Repub. Partyorruption in Repub. Party WHAT? WHAT?
Grant was an honest man who wasGrant was an honest man who was
surrounded by dishonest men.surrounded by dishonest men.
Hayes (R) vs. Tilden (D) 1876
• Dispute over 4 states
• D. scared away R. voters• R. threw away D. votes
• Polls showed Hayes won• Should have been Tilden
Hayes could remain in office if…
1. Federal troops withdrawn from the South
2. Federal money to rebuild railroads and waterways
3. Conservative Southern in President’s Cabinet
Jim Crow LawsJim Crow Laws
Plessy vs. Plessy vs. FergusonFerguson
Two goals of Two goals of ReconstructionReconstruction
Unify the North and SouthUnify the North and South
Equality for FreedmenEquality for Freedmen
Were these goals achieved???Were these goals achieved???
1942