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The End of Reconstruction

The End of Reconstruction. 12.3. Objectives. Explain why Reconstruction ended. Evaluate the successes and failures of Reconstruction. Key Parts. The Nation Considers Other Matters Why Did Reconstruction End Evaluating Reconstruction Effects. Introduction. Read 12.3 Answer Questions 4-5.

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The End of Reconstruction

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  1. The End of Reconstruction 12.3

  2. Objectives • Explain why Reconstruction ended. • Evaluate the successes and failures of Reconstruction

  3. Key Parts • The Nation Considers Other Matters • Why Did Reconstruction End • Evaluating Reconstruction Effects

  4. Introduction • Read 12.3 • Answer Questions 4-5

  5. The Nation Considers Other Matters • By 1872 Reconstruction had been occurring for over a decade. • European immigration was swelling in the north and west, major industry was also developing, allowing major profit and major corruption. • Ulysses S. Grant was a popular war hero but a disappointing President.

  6. Cont. • Grant had a great ability to lead but he allowed corruption to occur within his congress and legislature, even his own vice president was involved in financial scandals. • Some of these financial scandals came to light, and the peoples confidence in political leaders was extremely low. • Also at this point the northern economy was failing, so reconstruction was less focused on.

  7. Why Did Reconstruction End • Gradually the North began to pull troops out of the south because of the enormous cost. • Also in 1872 the Feedmen’s Bureau was dissolved. • During this time, in the south the goal was to increase segregation and to get the white men back into power. • The group doing this was called Redeemers; with the goal of reclaim power in Congress.

  8. Cont. • In the election of 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes won the election and wanted to end the political corruption. • However he doesn’t realize the dept of corruption and how difficult it will be to fix it. • Reconstruction finally officially ended through the Compromise of 1877. • All northern troops had to be pulled out of the south and the south was guarantied subsidies to build railroads and improve ports.

  9. Evaluating Reconstruction Efforts • Reconstruction wasn’t a huge success, however it wasn’t a failure either. • Enduring changes to the south occurred. The introduction of a tax-supported school system, an infusion of federal money to modernize roads and ports, and to have more than once singular cash crop.

  10. Cont. • Before the Civil War, no African American in the South and only a few in the north could vote, own land, or work for pay. • Reconstruction changed these things. By 1877 some southern blacks owned their own farms and that number would continue to grow. • One issue that arose was that black men could vote but women of either race couldn’t.

  11. Cont. • Women’s suffrage groups began to emerge. • The American Woman Suffrage Association, and the National Woman Suffrage Association. • Both of these groups were working to get women the right to vote. • In 1869 the NWSA scored its first victory when the Wyoming Territory became the first political unit to extend the vote to women.

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