Goals of Reconstruction??

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Northerners

  • Boost South economy by industrializing like the North has, 
  • Help African-Americans gain political rights, and legal rights 
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Southerners

  • Return to states' rights 
  • White supremacy 
  • Keep their lands, votes 
  • Economic supremacy 
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African Americans

  • Economic independence-land 
  • Voting rights, safety, community, education 
  • Churches, marriage, free movement 
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Republicans Gov't in the South

  • Ambitious Reforms: 
    • Education 
    • Transportation 
    • Family law 
    • Social services 
    • Commerce 
    • Eliminate property qualifications for voting 
    • Remove Black Codes 
    • Marriage rights for women 
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Members

  • African-Americans 
  • Scalawags-Southern Reconstruction supports 
  • Carpetbaggers-Norther Republican transplants 
  • Success-Education 
  • Failure-Convict leasing 
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The End of Reconstruction

  • North:
    • Loss of motivation 
    • Economic depression in 1873 
    • Corruption Republican part 
  • Rise of classical liberals- limited gov't hands off the economy 
  • South: 
    • "Redemption" 
    • Ex-confederates retake gov't control 
  • SCOTUS: reject equal rights 
  • Election of 1876
    • R: Hayes 
    • D: Tilden 
  • "The Lost Cause"
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