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The End of Reconstruction

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.

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The End of Reconstruction

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  1. The End of Reconstruction

  2. 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.

  3. Resistance by White Southerners • The Ku Klux Klan

  4. Resistance by White Southerners Political Resistance

  5. The Election of 1876 ? Who won? Samuel J. Tilden, Democrat Rutherford B. Hayes, Republican

  6. The Election of 1876

  7. Compromise of 1877 • Hayes allowed to become president. • Reconstruction ended—U.S. troops withdrawn from southern states.

  8. The Rise of “Jim Crow”

  9. Plessy v. Ferguson 1896

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