RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE ELECTION OF 1876
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A Democrat became president and ended many of the Radical Reconstruction programs.
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Northerners lost interest in Reconstruction during the depression that followed the Panic of 1873.
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The Republican Party lost power and influence as voters blamed it for economic hard times.
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Republicans focused on cleaning up corruption in their party and paid less attention to Reconstruction.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The South, however, saw Reconstruction as a humiliating, even vengeful imposition and did not welcome it. During the years after the war, black and white teachers from the North and South, missionary organizations, churches and schools worked tirelessly to give the emancipated population the opportunity to learn.
Detailed explanation-2: -scalawag, after the American Civil War, a pejorative term for a white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction or who joined with black freedmen and the so-called carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies.
Detailed explanation-3: -After 1867, an increasing number of southern whites turned to violence in response to the revolutionary changes of Radical Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations targeted local Republican leaders, white and Black, and other African Americans who challenged white authority.
Detailed explanation-4: -During Reconstruction, the South was under occupation by federal forces, and Southern state governments were dominated by Republicans, elected largely by freedmen and allies.