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, Republican Samuel 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withdrawn from southern states.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