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Failure of Reconstruction

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Redeemers Southern conservatives who retook control of state governments in the South from Republicans near the end of Reconstruction and imposed programs focused on states’ rights and White supremacy.
Ku Klux Klan White supremacy group founded in the South during Reconstruction who used extreme tactics and violence to intimidate African Americans and White reformers
Force Acts Laws passed by Congress to give the federal government the authority needed to stop the violence of the Ku Klux Klan and protect the civil rights of African Americans.
Black Codes Laws passed by Southern legislatures under President Johnson’s Reconstruction plan that restricted the rights and movements of African Americans.
Sharecropping New labor system in Southern agriculture that replaced slavery and allowed people to farm for themselves, but forced many former slaves to continue to depend on their landowners for survival.
Amnesty Act of 1872 Removed the last restrictions on ex-Confederates, except for the top leaders, which allowed Southern conservatives to regain control of state governments in the South.
Rutherford B. Hayes Nineteenth president of the United States and former Governor of Ohio, his ascent to the presidency was marred in controversy over the Compromise of 1877, which ended Reconstruction.
Samuel J. Tilden Democratic nominee for the presidency in the election of 1876 who won the popular vote, but lost the presidency as a result of the controversial Compromise of 1877.
Election of 1876 Controversial and contested election between Democrat Samuel J. Tilden and Republican Rutherford B. Hayes that was awarded to Hayes after the Compromise of 1877.
Compromise of 1877 Agreement between Republicans and Democrats to allow Rutherford B. Hayes to become president in the contested election of 1876 in exchange for ending Reconstruction.
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