| A | B |
|---|
| By the 1870's | Radical Republicans were losing power in Congress. |
| Northern feelings | weary of trying to change the South and time to forget the Civil War |
| Result of northern feelings | let the South run their own governments even if it meant blacks might lose rights they had recently gained |
| U.S.Grant | reelected in 1872 |
| 1872 Confederate officials pardoned | As a result, nearly all white southerners can vote again. |
| 1876 southern Republican states | SC, FL, LA |
| End of Reconstruction | It came with the Presidential election of 1876. |
| Tilden vs. Hayes | In a disputed election Hayes won on a 2nd electoral voting from SC,FL,and LA |
| Reason for Democrats not contesting the 2nd voting | Hayes had privately agreed to end Reconstruction. |
| evidence of Reconstruction's end | federal troops were removed from the 5 military districts and Democratic Conservatives tighten their grip on southern governments |
| Poll taxes | This tax required voters to pay a fee each time they voted. |
| Result of poll tax | Freedmen could rarely vote |
| Literacy tests | Required voters to read and explain a difficult portion of the U.S. Constitution |
| Grandfather clauses | If a voter's father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on Jan 1, 1867 the voter was excused from poll taxes and literacy tests |
| Blacks not included in "Grandfather clauses" | Because the 15th amendment wasn't passed until 1869 |
| segregation | separating people of different races |
| Jim Crow Laws | Separated blacks from whites in schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, streetcars, playgrounds, hospitals, and cemetaries. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court ruling which stated that as long as facilities for blacks and whites were equal then segregation was legal. However, facilities were rarely equal. |
| Laws passed during Reconstruction | These became the basis for the civil rights movement in the 1960's. |
