Ending Reconstruction (jan 1, 1862 – jan 1, 1898)
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Cases:
- Civil Rights Act of 1875
- Civil Rights Cases of 1883
- Jim Crow Laws
- Plessy vs. Ferguson
"NEW SOUTH"
- south would industrialize, rebuild, and
develop its economy
- agrarian sharecropping and tenant farming
- challenges for freedmen
- disenfranchised
- white Democrats (Redeemers) reassume
southern political power (oligarchy)
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