
Rifle clubs had openly assaulted and murdered Republicans, Grant: Said that the northern public was "tired out" by southern problems In the 1870s, who claimed to have saved the white South from the corruption and misgovernment Supreme Court ruled in the Slaughterhouse Cases that: When butchers excluded from a state-sponsored monopoly in Louisiana went to court, arguing that their right of equality to the law had been violated, the justice rejected their claim, ruling that the amendment had not altered traditional federalism In 1875, when Mississippi governor Adelbert Ames asked President Grant for help because white Was meant to expand national authority during Reconstruction The Liberal Republican movement in 1872: NOT TRUE: they believed the growth of federal power needed to be expanded.Īrgued that Reconstruction was a failure The Prostrate State depicts: A state engulfed by political corruption, drained by governmental extravagance, and under the control of a "mass of black barbarism" The U.S. Surrendered Colfax, Louisiana The Enforcement Acts, passed by Congress in 18, were designed to: Outlaw terrorist societies and allow the president to use the army against them.


The bloodiest act of violence during Reconstruction took place in _ in 1873, whereĪrmed whites killed hundreds of former slaves, including fifty militia members who had
