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 Federal troops withdrawn from the South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

Voting Voting RestrictioRestrictio

nsns

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