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Chapter 16 Section 3
The End of Reconstruction
• Explain why support for Reconstruction declined.
• Describe how African Americans in the South lost many newly gained rights.
• Describe the sharecropping system and how it trapped many in a cycle of poverty.
• Identify the signs that the South began to develop a strong economy by the 1880s.
Objectives:
Chapter 16 Section 3
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• poll tax – a personal tax to be paid before voting
• literacy test – a test to see if a person can read and write
• grandfather clause – a provision that allowed a voter to avoid a literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867
Terms and People
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• Homer Plessy – an African American man arrested for sitting in a coach marked “for whites only”
• sharecropper – a laborer who works the land for the farmer who owns it in exchange for a share of the value of the crop
• segregation – enforced separation of races
Terms and People (continued)
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What were the effects of Reconstruction?
The reforms of the Reconstruction era did not last.
By the end of the era, African Americans were subjected to new hardships and injustices.
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Americans began to forget the war and focused on bettering their
own lives.
President Grant’s administration
included corrupt, poorly chosen individuals.
After the Civil War, many northerners lost faith in the Republicans for these reasons:
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Reconstruction was the central issue in the presidential election of 1876.
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes wanted to continue Reconstruction.
Democrat Samuel J. Tilden wanted to end Reconstruction.
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The election was close. It came down to 20 disputed electoral votes.
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Congress appointed a 15-person commission, mostly Republicans, to settle the election results.
In return, Hayes agreed to end Reconstruction.
The commission decided to give Hayes, the Republican, all 20 electoral votes.
Rutherford B. Hayes
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With Reconstruction over, African Americans began to lose their rights in the South.
Southern whites passed laws to keep African Americans from voting.
One law required voters to pay a poll tax. This kept many poor freedmen from voting.
Another law required voters to pass a literacy test. It included a grandfather clause that allowed illiterate whites to vote.
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Southern states also created laws requiring segregation, known as Jim Crow laws.
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In 1896, the Supreme Court upheld segregation laws.
This rule remained in effect until the 1950s.
Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting in a coach marked “for whites only.”
The court ruled that a law could
require “separate but equal” facilities
for blacks and whites.
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Many poor African Americans were forced to become sharecroppers.
Chapter 16 Section 3
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Landowners gave land, seed, and tools in exchange for a share of the crop. The tenant bought other supplies on
credit.
Landowners sold the crop. The tenant got a share, minus what he owed for supplies.
Most sharecroppers owed more than
they earned.
Sharecropping only continued the cycle of poverty.
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Sharecropping was common in the South.
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The South’s economy began to gradually recover.
Southern leaders spoke of a “New
South” that would no longer depend
only on cotton.
The cotton, tobacco, and
textile industries thrived.
Factories developed
iron, timber, and oil.
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Laws passed during this time became the basis of the civil rights movement 100 years later.
African Americans were finally citizens, but they were far from full equality.
Reconstruction had many successes but also some failures.
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