RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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The South had been rebuilt and no longer needed to be reconstructed.
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New laws ensured the welfare of free slaves, and a new generation of southern leaders were ready to continue Union policies.
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Reconstruction was too expensive to continue.
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A compromise put a Republican candidate in the White House in exchange for withdrawing Union forces from the South.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Compromise of 1876 effectively ended the Reconstruction era. Southern Democrats’ promises to protect the civil and political rights of Black people were not kept, and the end of federal interference in southern affairs led to widespread disenfranchisement of Black voters.
Detailed explanation-2: -After the end of Reconstruction, racial segregation laws were enacted. These laws became popularly known as Jim Crow laws. They remained in force from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 until 1965. The laws mandated racial segregation as policy in all public facilities in the southern states.
Detailed explanation-3: -Reconstruction ended with the contested Presidential election of 1876, which put Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in office in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South. Republicans and Democrats responded to the economic declines by shifting attention from Reconstruction to economic recovery.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election; through it Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House on the understanding that he would remove the federal troops from South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.