Why did black voting decline across the South after Reconstruction? How did state politics and changes in state government influence this trend?
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
The ideal answer should:
1. Note that the end of Reconstruction in 1878 with the election of President Rutherford Hayes removed federal soldiers and progressive policies from the South in general, enabling the southern wing of the Democratic Party to take over.
2. Explain that white terrorism, as well as changes in state constitutions that allowed for literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and outright voting fraud, combined to reduce the black male vote by wide margins by the late 1800s in the southern states.
3. Note that the federal government made little effort to prevent the disfranchisement of African Americans. Use the failure to pass the Force bill as an example.
4. Conclude that when white Democrats took over state leadership, they passed new state constitutions that defrauded African-American people of their rights.
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