The End of Reconstruction

What happened in the Compromise of 1877?

• Samuel Tilden won the popular vote so the republicans let him be president.

• Rutherford Hayes gets to be president if he promises to remove troops from the South.

• The decide to start sharecropping as long as there is no slavery.

Laws passed by southern states soon after the Compromise of 1877.  These laws legalized segregation whites and blacks to use separate facilities. 

• Jim Crow Laws
• Black Codes
• Freedman's Bureau
• Reconstruction

Who was committing acts of violence against freedmen, carpetbaggers, and scalawags?

• the police

• U.S. soldiers

• Ku Klux Klan

• Republicans

What problem did many freedmen have with Reconstruction?

• They could not vote

• They could not find any jobs

• They had a hard time owning land

• They often had to relocate their families

The southern economy was still struggling even after many years of Reconstruction.

• True

• False

What led to higher taxes in the South?

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• Construction of new schools, hospitals, and roads

• The arrests of the Ku Klux Klan

• The development of industry

Liberal Republicans opposed

• higher taxes

• tariffs

• Reconstruction

• Redeemers

Redeemers were

• Republicans

• Democrats

• Progressives

• Communists

Who eventually won the Election of 1876?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Francis Scott

• Samuel Tilden

• Rutherford B. Hayes

Which court case legalized segregation?

• Roe v. Wade

• Texas v. Johnson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson