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What factors cause the failure of reconstruction?
Collapse of Reconstruction
The Depression of ‘73
•Economy collapses•Support for reconstruction (money) ends
The Klan
• Terrorism become widespread and frequent
• Becomes difficult to stop• Costs a great deal of money• How can freedmen influence laws if they
can’t vote?
• Outraged Southern Whites band together• Terrorists• Intimidate Black voters and politicians
Jim Crow Laws• Also called Black Codes
▫ Who are they for?• Literacy tests at polls• Grandfather Clause
▫ If grandfather couldn’t vote, neither could you
• Meant to keep Freedmen and Women away from polls
• Always under the watchful eye of the Klan
Election of 1877: Redemption
Vs
Rutherford B. Hayes (R) Samuel Tilden (D)
Results of Democracy• Reconstruction becomes
political liability• Freedmen voting rates on
the decline▫ Due to intimidation
• 1876 Election▫ Disputed in 3 states
LA, FL, SC• Tilden gives
election to Hayes
• Hayes agrees to end reconstruction if he becomes President
• Removes troops, programs• Freedmen on their own
• What can you conclude from the data in the map?
Whaa Happens?• Southern Whites organize
“White Leagues”▫ Turns into KKK▫ Intimidate, kill, want to
regain power• North struggles to control
▫ Insurgency▫ Pass anti-KKK law
Too little too late• Northern whites give up
▫ “We did enough, now it’s their turn”
▫ Costs $$$$$▫ US in financial
depression▫ Not so big on the racial
equality stuff yet
• How does this cartoon show the reasons reconstruction collapsed?
“THE UNION AS IT WAS; THIS IS A WHITE MAN’S GOVERNMENT; THE LOST CAUSE; WORSE THAN SLAVERY; WHITE LEAGUE”