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The End of Reconstruction
Unit II – Chapter 5Ch. 12,3 text
Grant’s Presidency
Corruption scandal problems
Grant not directly involved, but failed to stop or address corruption of his friends and staff
Public grew tired of corruption of powerful industrialists and government officials
1873 – economic depression
Supreme Court
1873 – Slaughterhouse Cases
1875 – US v. Cruikshank
Limited the scope/influence of 14th and 15th amendment
Highlighted gov’t apathy towards equal civil rights
Southern Backlash
Formation of the KKK
Little fear of consequences
Redeemer movement – bipartisan effort to rebuild the traditional south (of course, the parties work together when they ought not too)
Reelection of white Confederates to political positions
1874 – Radical Republicans lost the House
Compromise of 1877
Election of 1876 Split between popular and electoral vote
Rutherford B. Hayes (Rep) elected president in exchange for the end of troop occupation and Cabinet positions for Southerners
Effectively ended Reconstruction
Public fatigued with Reconstruction and distracted by economic problems and concerns with immigration
Evaluating Reconstruction
Increased suffrage for blacks, but very limited gains
Reinvigorated women’s rights movement
Strengthened two party system – Rep. became seen as the party of big business, Dem. became associated as the pro-labor (and anti-black and immigrant) party
Increased power of federal government
Bitterness between North and South