New York newspaperman Horace Greeley receives their nomination. Greeley's earlier radicalism, high tariff views, and well-known eccentricity repel many who oppose Grant. The Democrats, on July 9, also nominate Greeley. May Grant signs an amnesty bill he had advocated. Although the final legislation is less generous than Grant had wanted, now only a few hundred former Confederates are excluded from political privileges.
June 5: The Republican Convention meets at Philadelphia. It will renominate Grant on the first ballot. September 5: The New York Sun charges that Vice President Colfax, Vice-Presidential nominee Henry Wilson, James Garfield, and other prominent politicians are involved in the operations of the Credit Mobilier, a corporation established by the promoters of the Union Pacific railroad to siphon off the profits of transcontinental railroad construction.
Ultimately, two congressmen will be censured for their part in the swindle and many other politicians will be damaged in reputation.
November 5: Grant is reelected with an electoral college majority of , and a popular majority of , April The Colfax Massacre.
The White League, a paramilitary group intent on securing white rule in Louisiana, clashes with Louisiana's almost all-black state militia. The resulting death toll is staggering: only three members of the White League die, but some one hundred black men are killed. Of those, nearly half are murdered in cold blood after they surrender.
September The panic of begins with the failure of a Wall Street banking firm, spreads to the stock exchange, and eventually leads to widespread unemployment. The law will stand only until , when the U. Supreme Court will strike it down.
Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden, in which both candidates claim victory, Hayes is declared president. In a back-room political deal, the Republicans agree to abandon Reconstruction policies in exchange for the presidency. Reconstruction policies officially end. The South codifies and enforces segregation. Violations of black civil rights will not command national attention again until after World War II.
Discover the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst who helped bring down gangsters and break up a Nazi spy ring in South America. Her work helped lay the foundation for modern codebreaking today.
I n the summer of , hundreds of wildfires raged across the Northern Rockies. By the time it was all over, more than three million acres had burned and at least 78 firefighters were dead. It was the largest fire in American history. Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War. In the lead-up to the In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the United States found itself in uncharted territory.
Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Emancipation and Reconstruction At the outset of the Civil War , to the dismay of the more radical abolitionists in the North, President Abraham Lincoln did not make abolition of slavery a goal of the Union war effort.
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The Louisiana Massacre that Reversed Reconstruction-Era Gains In September , a dispute over a column published in an Opelousas, Louisiana partisan newspaper provoked one of the bloodiest incidents of racial violence in the Reconstruction era. In all respects, Reconstruction was mainly just that. It was the point where America attempted to become a full running country once more. This, though, was not an easy task. The south was virtually non-existent politically or economically, and searching desperately for a way back in.
Along with these things, now living amongst the population were almost four million former slaves, who had no idea how to make a living on their own. They had been freed by the 13th amendment in , and in the future became a great concern to many political leaders. Still, it was no secret that something had to be done. So, as usually happens, political leaders appeared on the stage, each holding their own plan of Reconstruction, each certain their ideas were the correct ones. One of the first people who came up with a blueprint for Reconstruction was the president at the time, Abraham Lincoln.
To rejoin, a state had to have ten percent of voters both accept the emancipation of slaves and swear loyalty to the union. Also, those high ranking officers of the state could not hold office or carry out voting rights unless the president said so. Well, sadly enough, Honest Abe was assassinated at Fords Theatre on April 14th, , before he could put his plan to the test.
After his death, several other political leaders emerged with plans in hand. These men were of the Republican Party, and they called themselves Radicals. First, they were mad at the south, blaming them for the Civil War that had just ended. Ergo, they wanted to punish them and make them pay. In the decision was overturned in the Supreme Court, however. Justices ruled that the legislation was unconstitutional on the grounds that the Constitution did not extend to private businesses and that it was unauthorized by the 13 th and 14 th amendments.
President Rutherford B. Hayes oversaw the end of Reconstruction. April 24, Rutherford B. Hayes pulled federal troops from their posts surrounding the capitals of Louisiana and South Carolina—the last states occupied by the U. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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