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The End of Reconstruction
Freedmen in Poverty
African Americans' Rights
•
Southern
states
• Most rural freedmen became
passed laws to
prevent African Americans
from
sharecroppers
voting. These included
•
•
crops in the fall
Poll tax
• dependent on landowner
and crop prices
literacy test
• grandfather
•
clauses
states passed
Southern
(poor whites too)
• rented land and paid with
laws, which enforced
•
.Jim Crow
segregation
Opportunities declined for urban
African Americans.
• skilled labor jobs closed to African
Americans
t
t
Reconstruction's
• Support
Conclusion
for Radical Republicans declined.
• Many people called for:
• withdrawal
•
of troops
from the South
full amnesty for former Confederates
• Disputed
•
Election of 1876
Rutherford
•
all troops
B Hayes
vowed to end Reconstruction
removed
Industrial Growth in the South
• Investors
into
started
or expanded industries
finished prodllct
• The textile
and -'o•.•..
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raw materials
.
industry
• New mills and factories
to turn
came to play an important
grew up to use the South's
role in the Southern
iron
, timber
economy.