5.11: The Failure of Reconstruction

Question 1

CONTEXT

Answer 1

• how to make Southern economy non-slave reliant?
• how to integrate and protect Southern black?

Question 2

SOUTH

Answer 2

• blacks adjusting to freedom
• establishment of black schools and colleges [Morehouse]
• black men elected into some offices
• whites recreating Antebellum

Question 3

SHARECROPPING

Answer 3

• blacks had contract with landowners to get share of crop in order for working land
• perpetual debt
• coerced labor
• no wages

Question 4

WHITE SUPREMACY

Answer 4

• 1867: KKK
• burned buildings
• controlled politics via intimidation and lynching
• BLACK CODES
• prohibited blacks from borrowing for land
• prohibited blacks from testifying against white
• provided for segregation

Question 5

END OF RECONSTRUCTION

Answer 5

• GRANT’S PRESIDENCY
• corruption and scandal
• Panic of 1873
• increased Democratic support
• costly building programs raised taxes
• white southerners felt individual freedoms = threatened
• north = dismayed army needed in South still
• ELECTION OF 1876
• Tilden v. Hayes
• reason Reconstruction ended
• Tilden = popular vote but neither = electoral
• in some states, Republicans and Democrats claimed victory
• Electoral Commission to rectify
• above = majority Republican and declared Hayes winner
• Democrats threatened to block inauguration