Do Now: Grab a worksheet and do
the ‘Do Now’
Objectives: Students will be able to...(1) explain Grant's presidency
(2) analyze a map for key information
Homework:
Guided reading 12.4 (DUE WEDNESDAY)
Test Thursday (Chapter 12)
Republicans Split
 Expanded programs it started
during Civil War – tariffs, bank
regulations, railroads, etc.
 Kept taxes on Alcohol/Tobacco
(“Sin Taxes”)
 Liberal Republicans – Didn’t
agree with all taxes
 Why?: Because they benefited
only the wealthy – Poor were
crushed
Scandals &
Panic!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 William Belknap (Secretary of War)
– Took bribes from merchants at
army posts
 “Whiskey Ring” – Whiskey makers
and government officials filed false
tax papers to keep millions of $$$$
 Panic of 1873 – Economic
Depression
 Banks Closed
 Stores closed
 People panicked
 RESULT: Democrats won back House
of Reps
Reconstruction Ends
 Review – Ulysses S. Grant
 Democrats get rule back
 Intimidation, stuffing ballots, bribing
voters, stealing boxes
 Won back white farm owners
 Claim: It’s a struggle white vs. African
Americans
 Democrats able to stop enforcement
of Reconstruction
 Why?
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Election of 1876 (Map Activity)
Pg. 405
Identify candidates and write them in boxes
Give each candidate a color
Label all the states
Color the states Tilden won
Color the states Hayes won
Color the disputed states
Compromise of 1877
 Tilden won 184 votes
 Hayes Won 165 votes
 20 ‘Disputed’ Votes
 19 in Republican areas
 Created a committee to
investigate (8 Rep, 7 Dem)
 They voted for Hayes 
both houses of congress
had to approve
 Many think a deal was
struck (Some Democrats
needed to support
Republicans)
 Soldiers taken out of south
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Do Now: Grab a worksheet from
the front!
Objectives: Students will be able to...(1) explain the
"New South" (2) analyze text for key information
Homework: Test Thursday (Chapter 12)
What was the South like before the
Civil War?
“New South” – Henry Grady
 Needed industry
 Alliance between powerful
southerners and northern
financiers
 Changes:
 Railroads: 1890: 40,000
miles
 Iron/steel factories
 Tobacco plants
 Cotton mills
 Still mostly agricultural
Define the following terms and use
them in a historically accurate
sentence
 Tenant farmers
 Sharecroppers
 Furnishing merchants
 Crop liens
 Debt peonage
Ulysses S. Grant – Presidents Series