1 giug 1875 anni - Failure of Reconstruction 1870s

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-Plans cost a lot of money that the gov't. did't have
-High taxes turned the publics opinion against reconstruction even worse
-Propaganda war emerged: scalawags=southerners who cooperated, carpetbaggers=northerners who ran the program
-Both the Northerners were just as guilty of corruptness as the Southerners
-Grant's administration was known as very corrupt, given that he didn't have any political experience, he appointed his friends and supporters to government positions instead of more qualified men. Many scandals were associated with his presidency such as the Credit Mobilier scandal, Whiskey ring, and Delano affair
-Ku Klux Klan: focused on murdering freedmen
-White League: focused on murdering Republicans
-Enforcement Acts were passed so federal troops could oppose the Klan and its violence
-grandfather clauses were made by southern states to restrict voting rights of freedmen such as poll taxes and literary tests
-Financial panics emerged such as the Panic of 1873 which drew the nation's eye away from reconstruction
-Redeemers: Southern Democrats who had regained control of most of the region's state legislatures
-The contested election of 1876
-The Compromise of 1877: came after a disputed election between Hayes and Tilden, Tilden won the popular vote, but neither won the electoral and the Democrats agreed to give Hayes the presidency. If Hayes won the election, he would end military reconstruction and pull federal troops out of SC and LA.
-lives of Black people became worse

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