End of Reconstruction Notes
Name ________________
What is Gained is Lost and What was Lost is Regained
Reconstruction ended in 1877 as a result of a _____________ over the outcome of the
_______ ___ _________________
Compromise of 1877
__________ ____ _______ elected president by _______________
• Southerners agreed to give _______ the presidency
• In return _________ troops were _________ from the ________
• Rights that African Americans had _______ were ______ through “____ ____” ____
Segregation
Segregation: __________ of people by _____
 Based on _____
 Segregation directed primarily at _________ _________ in the ______; however, other
groups were kept segregated.
 _________ _________ were not considered __________ until ______
“Jim Crow” Laws
Laws that _______ and _________segregation
 Passed to __________ against freedmen
 Made discrimination practices _____ in many communities and states
 Were characterized by _________ ________ in _______, _______, _________, and
government
Voter ____________________
 ____ ____: taxes imposed on voters
 ___________ ______: tests requiring voters to read and write.
Plessy vs. Ferguson
 Supreme Court Case 1896
 Established that “_________ but ______” treatment was ________, thus making
segregation ______ throughout the ________
Secret Societies – _____ _______ ______ (_____)
 Members wore _____ and _____ and pretended to be ghosts of __________ soldiers
returned from the dead for ________ against the ________ of the ________.
 Horsemen in long robes appeared at _____ carrying ____ and ______. They
encircled the homes of their victims, and planted huge ________ ________ in
their yards. People were _________ from their homes, ________, kidnapped, or
___________.
Response to “Jim Crow” Laws
African Americans ________ in their responses to ______________ and “Jim Crow” Laws.
Booker T. Washington
 Famous _______ (no ________
education)
 Believed _________ could be
achieved through ________
education; accepted _______
segregation as a _________ situation
W.E.B. DuBois
st
 1 African American to earn a Ph. D
from _________
 _________ Booker T. Washington’s
__________
 Believed in ____ ________, _____,
and ________ rights for African
Americans
 Founded ___________