RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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It removed federal troops from the South.
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It placed a Democrat in the White House.
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It ensured that Democrats would join the cabinet.
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It created a split within the Republican Party.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Compromise itself secured Hayes’s authority as a political fact, and the subsequent withdrawal of the last federal troops from the Southern United States, effectively ending the Reconstruction Era and forfeiting the Republican claims to the state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.
Detailed explanation-2: -How did the Compromise of 1877 mark the beginning of the end of Reconstruction? It removed federal troops from the South.
Detailed explanation-3: -As a result of the so-called Compromise of 1877 (or Compromise of 1876), Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina became Democratic once again, effectively bringing an end to the Reconstruction era.
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.