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withdrawn from southern states.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