AP African American Studies / Unit 3: The Practice of Freedom
3.4 The Defeat of Reconstruction
Notes
Black men voted and held office (Hiram Revels, the first Black US senator, 1870). But violence, Northern withdrawal, and the Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction. Supreme Court rulings (Slaughterhouse Cases) weakened the amendments.
Practice
Hiram Revels was the first African American to serve in the:
Mississippi, 1870.
Reconstruction ended with:
Troops withdrawn.
A cause of Reconstruction's defeat:
Many factors.
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