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UNDOING RECONSTRUCTIONAPUSH - Spiconardi
Sharecropping & Tenant Farming• Landowners rented land to
farmers who usually supplied them with farming tools and a crude house, farmers grew crops for landowners and kept a small percentage, often not enough to sell.• Farmers often lived in poverty
Sharecropping
“My boy, we’ve toiled and taken care of you long enough – now you’ve got to work”
Harper’s Weekly, July 29, 1865
Overthrow of Reconstruction• Much of the South opposed
Reconstruction and the new state governments• Declared the governments to be• Corrupt• Examples of “black supremacy”• Tax heavy
• In order to restore white supremacy, southerners turned to violence
Ku Klux Klan• A terrorist organization
founded in Tennessee in 1866• Served as the military arm of the
Southern Democratic Party
• Committed acts of violence and terror against• Blacks• White Republicans (judges,
teachers, politicians)
• In 1873, the Klan attacked Colfax, LA with a small cannon
Ku Klux Klan• Grant dispatches federal
marshals to arrest members of the KKK• Many were put on trial• By 1872, the Klan ceased to
exist (until 1920s)
1865 1874
Waning Northern Interest in Reconstruction
• Reasons• Media depictions of southern governments being a mass
of “black barbarianism” and corruption • Panic of 1873• North too worried about economic problems to care about the
South
• Democratic gains in Congress• Democrats took control of the House in 1874
• Supreme Court Rulings• Slaughterhouse Case (1873)• Court ruled that most of the rights of citizens remained under state
jurisdiction
Bargain of 1877• Republican controlled
Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana claimed voter fraud and voter intimidation• Declared these three
states electoral votes go to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes
• Redeemer Democrats submitted their own electoral votes for Samuel J. Tilden
Bargain of 1877• The Constitution did not
provide guidelines for this situation
• An electoral commission worked out a deal in which Hayes would be president under the following conditions:• A democrat would be appointed to
the cabinet• Federal aid would be given to Texas
to build a railroad• Republicans would not interfere in
the South’s local affairs• Most Union troops would be
removed
• The “Solid South” was restored