The End of Reconstruction

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.

Resistance by White Southerners

• The Ku Klux Klan

Resistance by White Southerners

Political

Resistance

The Election of 1876

Rutherford B. Hayes, RepublicanSamuel J. Tilden, Democrat

Who won?

The Election of 1876

Compromise of 1877

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

withdrawn from southern states.

The Rise of “Jim Crow”

Plessy v. Ferguson 1896