The invisible empire burned black owned buildings and

The invisible empire burned black-owned buildings and flogged and murdered
freedmen to keep them from exercising their voting rights
 Congress passed the Force Acts of 1870 and 1871 which stopped Ku Klux Klan
o The Amnesty Act of 1872
 Removed the last of the restrictions on ex-confederates, except for the top
leaders
 Allowed southern conservatives to vote for democrats to retake control of state
government
o The Election of 1876
 Federal troops had been withdrawn from all but three southern states
 South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana
 Democrats return to power in all ex-Confederate states except these
 Republicans picked Rutherford B. Hayes
 The Democrats chose Samuel J. Tilden
 Tilden lost by only one electoral vote
o The Compromise of 1877
 Leaders of the two parties worked out on informal deal
 Democrats would allow Hayes to become president in return he would
 Immediately end federal support for the Republicans in the South
 Support the building of a Southern transcontinental railroad
 Hayes fulfilled his promises in the Compromise of 1877
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The Supreme Court struck down one Reconstruction law at a time that protected
blacks from discrimination