Post Civil War Dbq

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A. Population post-civil war republic was increasing by leaps and bounds 1. Census takers 36 million in 1870 a 26.6% increase B. The United States is now the third largest nation in the western world 1. Ranked behind Russia and France II. The “Bloody Shirt” Elects Grant A. The Republicans nominated Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant, he was a great soldier but no political experience. 1. The Democrats could only criticize military Reconstruction and couldn’t agree on anything, causing them to be disorganized. 2. The Republicans got Grant elected (barely) by “waving the bloody shirt,” or reliving his war victories. Used his popularity to elect him, though his popular vote was only slightly ahead of his rival Horatio Seymour. B. Seymour was the Democratic candidate who …show more content…

The Electoral Count Act 1877, made an electoral commission that was made up of 15 men selected from the Senate, the House, and the Supreme Court, which would count the votes (the 15th man was to be an independent, David Davis, but at the last moment, he resigned). B. February 1877, the Senate and the House met to settle the dispute. Hayes became president as a part of the rest of the Compromise of 1877. True to a compromise, both sides won a bit: 1. For the North—Hayes would become president if he agreed to remove troops from the remaining two Southern states where Union troops remained (Louisiana and South Carolina), a bill would subsidize the Texas and Pacific rail line. 2. For the South—military rule and Reconstruction ended when the military pulled out of the South. 3. The Compromise of 1877 abandoned the Blacks in the South by withdrawing troops, and their last attempt at protection of Black rights was the Civil Rights Act of 1875, was mostly declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the 1883 Civil Rights cases. C. Table 24.1 Composition of the Electoral Commission 1877 1. Showed republican had more people that the democrats in the 15 man split D. The End of Reconstruction

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