RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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President Hayes was impeached by Congress and removed from office.
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Support from the southern states help him win the re-election in 1881.
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More African-American politicians were elected to seats in the U.S. Congress.
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Subversive groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the Redeemers regained control of politics in the southern states.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the capitals of the Reconstruction states. Which of these was an effect of this decision? Subversive groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the Redeemers regained control of politics in the southern states.
Detailed explanation-2: -The withdrawal marked the end of Reconstruction and paved the way for the unrestrained resurgence of white supremacist rule in the South, carrying with it the rapid deterioration of political rights for Black people.
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, also known as the Wormley Agreement or the Bargain of 1877, was an unwritten deal, informally arranged among members of the United States Congress, to settle the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden.
Detailed explanation-5: -In consequence of the “Bargain of 1877, ” President Rutherford B. Hayes: ordered federal troops to be withdrawn from the South. During Reconstruction, some 2, 000 African-Americans held public office, among them fourteen in the United States House of Representatives and two U.S. senators.