The End of Reconstruction
1877
START
Index
Election of 1876 ·········
Compromise of 1877····
End of Reconstruction··
Plessy v. Ferguson········
The Election of 1876
a. Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) vs. Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) b. The election is very close, causing disputes over who the actual winner was. c. Tilden won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote by one. d. An Election Commission was put together to decide the winner. e. Hayes was eventually declared the winner and became the 19th President.
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Compromise of 1877
a. The Compromise of 1877 was an informal deal between allies of presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes and Southern Democrats. b. Democrats agreed to give Hayes the presidency. c. Hayes agreed to end Reconstruction and remove Union troops from southern states.
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The End of Reconstruction
a. Reconstruction officially ended in 1877 after Hayes removes all remaining Union troops from the South. b. 'Home Rule' was granted to the South and governments of Southern states began to enact laws that eroded the civil rights of African Americans living there. c. The 'Jim Crow' Era began and lasted until the 1960s. i. Jim Crow laws were passed to enforce racial segregation and prevent African Americans from voting.
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Plessy v. Ferguson
a. In 1892, Homer Plessy, a mixed-race man, was arrested for sitting in a whites only train car in Louisiana. b. The case went to the US Supreme Court. c. The Court's decision established the principle of 'seperate but equal'. i. This meant that states could legally enforce segregation as long as the separate facilities were the same. d. This case allowed for segregation to continue in the South until it was overturned in 1954 by the Brown v. Board of Education case.
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws were passed throughout the Southern states to enforce racial segregation. Many segregation laws at the time were supported by the Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson. This case was overturned in 1952.
This political cartoon shows the effects groups like the KKK had on African American families living in the South, particularly after Reconstruction ended.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Before becoming president, Hayes was a major in the Union army and was wounded five times during the war. He later served as both a member of Congress and the Governor of Ohio. Because of the controversy around the election of 1876, Hayes took the oath of office in secret inside the White House before the public inauguration a few days later. His opponents began to call him 'Rutherfraud' and 'His Fraudulency' after a special commission gave him the presidency.
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The End of Reconstruction
1877
START
Index
Election of 1876 ·········
Compromise of 1877····
End of Reconstruction··
Plessy v. Ferguson········
The Election of 1876
a. Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) vs. Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) b. The election is very close, causing disputes over who the actual winner was. c. Tilden won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote by one. d. An Election Commission was put together to decide the winner. e. Hayes was eventually declared the winner and became the 19th President.
+ info
Compromise of 1877
a. The Compromise of 1877 was an informal deal between allies of presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes and Southern Democrats. b. Democrats agreed to give Hayes the presidency. c. Hayes agreed to end Reconstruction and remove Union troops from southern states.
+ info
The End of Reconstruction
a. Reconstruction officially ended in 1877 after Hayes removes all remaining Union troops from the South. b. 'Home Rule' was granted to the South and governments of Southern states began to enact laws that eroded the civil rights of African Americans living there. c. The 'Jim Crow' Era began and lasted until the 1960s. i. Jim Crow laws were passed to enforce racial segregation and prevent African Americans from voting.
+ info
Plessy v. Ferguson
a. In 1892, Homer Plessy, a mixed-race man, was arrested for sitting in a whites only train car in Louisiana. b. The case went to the US Supreme Court. c. The Court's decision established the principle of 'seperate but equal'. i. This meant that states could legally enforce segregation as long as the separate facilities were the same. d. This case allowed for segregation to continue in the South until it was overturned in 1954 by the Brown v. Board of Education case.
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws were passed throughout the Southern states to enforce racial segregation. Many segregation laws at the time were supported by the Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson. This case was overturned in 1952.
This political cartoon shows the effects groups like the KKK had on African American families living in the South, particularly after Reconstruction ended.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Before becoming president, Hayes was a major in the Union army and was wounded five times during the war. He later served as both a member of Congress and the Governor of Ohio. Because of the controversy around the election of 1876, Hayes took the oath of office in secret inside the White House before the public inauguration a few days later. His opponents began to call him 'Rutherfraud' and 'His Fraudulency' after a special commission gave him the presidency.