Transcript Reconstruction Ends - LOUISVILLE

Section 17.4:
Reconstruction Ends
• In February 1870, the 15th Amendment
guaranteed suffrage, or the right to vote, to all
citizens except women and American Indians
• Southerners were concerned that African
Americans could decide the outcome of an
election
• Some southern states prevented African
Americans from voting
• Some states passed laws with grandfather
clauses that made many African
Americans ineligible to vote
– Any adult could vote if his grandfather was a
registered voter on January 1, 1867
• Whites organized secret groups such as
the Klu Klux Klan
– The KKK wanted to keep African Americans
from voting, to punish the scalawags, and to
make the carpetbaggers leave the South
– They used violence to scare their victims; it
sometimes led to murder
Problems Grant Had
• President Grant found that being President was
very different from serving as a general
• Grant’s administration was hurt by several
scandals
• He appointed his friends to government jobs;
many friends were not honest
– They tried to get rich by using the power of the
government offices
• Shortly after President Grant began his second
term, the country went into a depression that
lasted for almost 4 years
How Did Reconstruction End
• After 10 years of the reconstruction,
northerners grew tired of the high taxes and
felt the Southerners should take care of
themselves
• Grant’s two terms had been full of corruption
• The election of 1876 called for a President
who could restore the people’s trust in the
government
• The Republicans chose Rutherford B.
Hayes, as their candidate
• The Democrats chose Samuel J. Tilden as
their candidate
• Tilden won the popular vote, but neither
candidate won a majority of electoral votes
– An Electoral Commission decided the election
• Rutherford B. Hayes told southern Democratic
leaders that he would end Reconstruction if they
would support him
• With southern support, the House of
Representatives agreed with the Electoral
Commission’s decision to make Hayes President
• Hayes took office in March of 1877 and, within a
few months, all federal troops left the southern
states
• Reconstruction had come to an end
• The country celebrated its centennial in 1876
– A centennial is the 100th year celebration of
something
• There were still social and political problems
– Some Americans still did not get along with African
Americans
– African American voters helped elect two AfricanAmerican senators and 15 African-American
representatives between 1865 and 1877
• After reconstruction, southern state
governments began denying African Americans
racial and social equality and the right to vote
• In some states, conditions for African
Americans were not much better than they had
been before the Civil War
17.4 PowerPoint Questions
1.) A secret society called the ___ used violence to
prevent African Americans from voting.
2.) The presidency of ___ was marked by corruption.
3.) After Reconstruction, most African Americans
were ____ most of their rights.
4.) The United States celebrated its centennial in
___.
5.) When federal ___ left the South, Reconstruction
ended.
C.T.) Grant chose friends to fill important government
positions. If you were President, how would you
choose people to fill these positions?
Chapter 17 Review: Identifying Facts
Andrew Johnson
14th Amendment
Ku Klux Klan
Exposition
Reconstruction
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Freedman’s Bureau
sharecroppers
impeachment
tenant farmers
15th Amendment
John Wilkes Booth
Ulysses S. Grant
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The ___ to the United States Constitution gave African-Americans men the right to vote
in elections.
The first ___ act divided the South into five regions and placed federal troops there to
maintain order.
___ was Lincoln’s Vice President and became President after Lincoln died.
The ___ was an agency that was supposed to help formerly enslaved people and
some white southerners find jobs.
African Americans were given equal protection under law by the ___.
Most ___ were freedmen who were allowed to farm the land by giving much of their
harvest to landowners.
Americans celebrated the nation’s centennial with a Centennial ___ in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
The Congress tried to get rid of President Johnson by holding hearings and voting on
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Abraham Lincoln was shot to death by ___, who supported the southern cause.
A secret organization, the ___, was formed to keep African Americans from voting and
living free under the Constitution.
Congress passed the ___ before the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified.
___ was elected President because people thought he had saved the Union during the
Civil War.
Chapter 17 Review: Understanding Main Ideas
1. What was the South like right after the
Civil War ended?
2. What did “Radical Republicans” in
Congress want to do to the South? Why?
3. Why did Congress establish the
Freedmen’s Bureau?
4. How did the plantation system change
after the Civil War?
5. What were some of the problems that
Grant faced as President?