AP U.S. History / Unit 5: Period 5: 1844–1877
5.11 Failure of Reconstruction
Notes
Southern governments passed Black Codes; the Ku Klux Klan used violence. Sharecropping trapped many in debt. Northern support faded. The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction as federal troops left the South.
Practice
Sharecropping often left Black farmers:
Crop liens.
The Compromise of 1877:
Hayes became president.
Black Codes were:
Limited freedom.
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