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Achievements of Reconstruction
Achievements of Reconstruction-Era State Governments
civil rights laws and judicial reform
public school in all southern states
other public institutions:
asylums
hospitals
orphanages
prisons
infrastructure and economic development projects
Ordinary Black Southerners and Reconstruction
most efforts at land redistribution, economic equality fell short
cotton industry revived post-war
labor systems renegotiated, most commonly as sharecropping
families farmed parcels of larger estates
received a share of profits from the crop sale
often led to dependency and debt to their landlords
a range of outcomes for black southerners
economic gains disappointed most
End of Reconstruction
southern whites pushed back at every step
panic of 1837 → economic depression, labor conflict
undercut northern support for Reconstruction
many white Republicans backed away from supporting racial equality
new group of white southern democrats “redeemers” gained power
won the House of Representatives, 1874
control of state governments, mid-late 1870s
1876 presidential election was close and contested
Rutherford Hayes (R) vs Samuel Tilden (D)
Hayes lost the popular vote by 250,000
won the electoral college by 1 vote
fears of a new sectional crisis
compromise of 1877
Hayes becomes President
federal troops withdraw from the South
special economic favors to the South
“Undoing” Reconstruction in South
post 1877, white southerners suppressed black civil rights
1890-1910, new or amended state constitutions disenfranchised black people
legally colorblind measures: poll taxes, literacy tests, etc.
“Jim Crow” laws segregated and denied black civil rights
Klan-style terrorist violence and lynching
legal discrimination remained until the mid-20th century
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