jan 1, 1870 - Reconstruction Falls part

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Ku Klux Klan
- to secure white supremacy and resist
Reconstruction government

Force Acts of 1870 and 1871
- intended to stop resistance to Reconstruction
- federal forces sent to stop the KKK

Civil Rights Act of 1875
- guaranteed equal access to public places
- protected right to serve on juries
- RARELY ENFORCED

By 1870s, Congress and Grant were unwilling to use federal forces to fix the south

RELATIVELY UNCHANGED ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PATTERNS IN THE SOUTH

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