BRIEF DESCRIPTION ABOUT EVENTS WHICH LED TO THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION

1. THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION

2. WHAT CAUSED THE END OF
RECONSTRUCTION??

RADICAL REPUBLICANS WERE LOSING
POWER

MANY NORTHERNERS GREW TIRED OF
TRYING TO REFORM THE SOUTH

MANY FELT IT WAS TIME TO LET THE SOUTH
RUN THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS

3. WHAT CAUSED THE END OF
RECONSTRUCTION??

CONGRESS PASSED THE AMNESTY ACT,
GIVING THE RIGHT TO VOTE BACK TO
WHITE SOUTHERNERS

THE ELECTION OF 1876

4. RECONSTRUCTION ENDS WITH
THE ELECTION OF 1876

THE ELECTION OF
1876 ENDED
RECONSTRUCTION

A DISPUTE OVER
ELECTORAL VOTES
BETWEEN HAYES
AND TILDEN
CAUSED A SPECIAL
COMMISION TO
SETTLE THE

5. COMPROMISE OF 1877

ISSUE.

HAYES WAS GIVEN
THE ELECTION AND
AGREED TO
REMOVE THE
UNION TROOPS
FROM THE SOUTH
TO PLEASE THE
SOUTHERN
DEMOCRATS

6. RESTRICTED RIGHTS

THE SOUTH WAS
NOW BACK IN
CONTROL OF THEIR
GOVERNMENT AND
PASSED LAWS TO
KEEP AFRICAN
AMERICAN MEN
FROM VOTING

7. RESTRICTED RIGHTS

POLL TAXES-VOTERS HAD TO PAY TO VOTE

LITERACY TESTS-REQUIRED VOTERS TO
READ AND EXPLAIN A SECTION OF THE
CONSTITUTION

GRANDFATHER CLAUSE-IF A VOTER'S
FATHER OR GRANDFATHER VOTED IN THE
PAST, VOTER WOULD BE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE

8. PLESSY V FERGUSON

THE PLESSY VS
FERGUSON CASE
RULED SEPARATE
BUT EQUAL WAS
LEGAL.

SEGREGATION-
SEPARATION OF
RACES WAS NOW
LEGAL

9. PLESSY V FERGUSON

THE FACILITIES
FOR WHITES AND
BLACKS WERE
RARELY EQUAL

10. QUESTIONS???
1. NAME ONE CAUSE THAT HELPED TO END
RECONSTRUCTION
2. WHAT HAPPEN WITH THE ELECTION OF
1876?
3. WHAT IS A POLL TAX?

11. QUESTIONS???
4. WHAT WAS A LITERACY TEST?
5. WHAT DID THE GRANDFATHER CLAUSE
REQUIRE?
6. WHAT WAS THE RULING IN THE PLESSY V
FERGUSON CASE?

12. QUESTIONS???
7. HOW DID AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN RIGHTS
TO VOTE BECOME RESTRICTED?