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The End of Reconstruction

The End of Reconstruction. Reconstruction Tried to Suppress former Confederate leadership and the attitudes of rebellion against the United States.Suppress

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Page 1: The End of Reconstruction. Reconstruction Tried to Suppress former Confederate leadership and the attitudes of rebellion against the United States.Suppress

The End of Reconstruction

Page 2: The End of Reconstruction. Reconstruction Tried to Suppress former Confederate leadership and the attitudes of rebellion against the United States.Suppress

Reconstruction

Tried to• Suppress former Confederate leadership

and the attitudes of rebellion against the United States.

• Secure full citizenship and civil rights for the former slaves.

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Resistance by White Southerners

• The Ku Klux Klan

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Resistance by White Southerners

Political

Resistance

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The Election of 1876

Rutherford B. Hayes, RepublicanSamuel J. Tilden, Democrat

Who won?

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The Election of 1876

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Compromise of 1877

• Hayes allowed to become president.• Reconstruction ended—U.S. troops

withdrawn from southern states.

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The Rise of “Jim Crow”

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Plessy v. Ferguson 1896