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Title: 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

4
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?
Wrap-up Question
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