Amendments, Decisions and The End of Reconstruction?

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Amendments, Decisions and The End of
Reconstruction?

• Was it successful?

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Civil War Amendments

• 13th Amendment
• Unlike the Emancipation Proclamation, this change
  to the Constitution ends ALL slavery in the
  United States

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• Declared former slaves CITIZENS
• Provides equal rights for ALL CITIZENS
• Counted and represented as CITIZENS
• Prevents former Confederates from holding office

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15th Amendment

• Election of 1870 many angry white southerners
  refused to (or couldnt) vote
• More than 600 African Americans were elected to
  southern legislatures and 16 black men were
  elected to Congress

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Plessy vs Ferguson (Supreme Court Decision)

• 1896, legalized segregation throughout the United
  States
• Areas that still felt threatened by freedmen

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The End of Reconstruction

• Why did Reconstruction efforts finally end?
• Heavy taxes
• Lots of corruption
• Lack of Northern support for racial equality
• The Solid South(Southern Democrats) reversed
  many of the reforms benefitting the Freedmen

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The Compromise of 1877

• Samuel Tilden (Dem.) wins popular vote, but there
  is a dispute over electoral votes
• The Democrats agree to give Rutherford B. Hayes
  (Rep.) the presidency in return for the removal
  of all federal troops from the Southern States
• The Removal of the Troops
  EQUALS The End of Reconstruction

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How successful was Reconstruction?
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