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We continued to talk about the Reconstruction effort and the highs and lows of it. by 1876 the Reconstruction was largely over. Some things had changed and some had stayed the same for Americans.
Reconstruction
At the bottom of the paper students used the book to answer the following 3 questions at the bottom of the share cropping handout. page 188-189

•1. Why did the Reconstruction collapse?

•2. What allowed southern Confederates to take back the power in the South?

•3. How did the election of 1876 end the Reconstruction process in the South?