When federal troops left in 1877
Most African-Americans in the South made their living as sharecroppers and were poor. Reconstruction protected their right to vote and to seek public office.
Representation of the South increased because more Southern states were created during Reconstruction.
President Hayes kept removes troops from the South. The order was given on May 1st, 1877. The decision to end Reconstruction and return the rule to Southerners, soon resulted in the disenfranchisement of the Blacks in the South.
The South resisted reconstruction by passing special laws, like the Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws, in order to keep blacks down in a status practically the same as slavery.
There were several reasons that Northern support had faded:The cost of military operations in the south worried many peopleThe south didn't want to change and were passing laws in direct repudiation of federal mandatesThe KKK terrorists were widely accepted in some southern state governmentsViolence against blacks and dismissal of law was widespread... reconstruction didn't seem to be working
When federal troops left in 1877
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Exodusters
Which former Confederate state had the most blacks holding office during Reconstruction
The South had developed a more balanced economy after Reconstruction
The Reconstruction Act of 1876 provided for the rebuilding of the Southern United States following the Civil War, which was hugely destructive in terms of loss of life and damage to the infrastructure of the South.
blacks and whites who supported blacks (mainly)
The Reconstruction Era in the South had a different meaning than the Republican view, as the Republican Party created most of the reconstruction laws and policies. Their idea was to reform the old Confederacy and have it blend in, at whatever the cost with the rest of the Union. The Southern view saw reconstruction from a different point of view. To the "Old South", reconstruction meant that former slaves and other minorities would have equal rights with ones held by white people. This for them was not correct as they believed that Blacks were not equal to Whites. The idea of having Freed slaves take part in the governments of the southern states, allow them to vote and own farms was against the southern point of view.
Southern leaders had no say in plans for reconstruction. Without representation critical issues involving the economy of the South could not be addressed. Newly freed slaves also had no where to go after being freed and the loss of slave labor had a negative effect on the agicultural economy the South was founded on.
Most Southern Democrats supported President Lincoln's Reconstruction plan.
Most African-Americans in the South made their living as sharecroppers and were poor. Reconstruction protected their right to vote and to seek public office.
Representation of the South increased because more Southern states were created during Reconstruction.