February 19, 2010

Twice in the history of the

United States the person
elected President got the
fewest popular votes, but
the most electoral votes.
Should this be made
illegal?
 Homework:
None
Stay safe

Stay Sane

Stay out of

trouble
The Election of 1876
 US Grant is the
outgoing president
 Grant had been in
charge of a corrupt
administration
 Samuel Tilden, the
Democratic
candidate, ran as a
reformer
 Rutherford B. Hayes
 October 4, 1822 –
January 17, 1893
 Civil War general
 Republican
candidate
 Received less votes
than Tilden, but
was elected
president
The “Compromise of 1877”
 Hayes gets the
presidency
 In return, Hayes
will appoint at least
one southerner to
his cabinet
 Hayes will
withdraw all
federal troops from
the South
 The South’s Complains
 Northerners went
south to loot and
take over
 They were called
carpetbaggers
 Southerners felt
they lost their
rights – with some
justification
Black Codes
 Laws governing
the behavior of
African
Americans
 In many cases

they were slave

codes rewritten
and put back on
the books
 Why
 Again, it’s all based
on white fear
 Whites believed
they would lose
power if they had
to treat African
Americans as
equals
 Do you think this is
true?
Legacy
 Many “Historically
Black Colleges”
were begun by the
Freedmen’s Bureau
 Among them –
Howard University,
in Washington DC
 Named after a
former head of the
Bureau
 Preview
 Jim Crow
 Not a person, but a
philosophy of how the
races should relate
 “Separate but equal”
 In reality, American
Apartheid
Class work:
 Scavenger hunt
 Review it

 Ask questions

 Talk to each

other
 It will be due in

a week