RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Sent more troops to the south
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Override Veto’s
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Removed the Military from the south, not giving protection to African Americans
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Did nothing
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Detailed explanation-1: -President Hayes’ withdrawal of federal troops from Louisiana and South Carolina marked a major turning point in American political history, effectively ending the Reconstruction Era and issuing in the system of Jim Crow.
Detailed explanation-2: -As the 19th President of the United States (1877-1881), Rutherford B. Hayes oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-3: -On April 24, 1877, as part of a political compromise that enabled his election, President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew federal troops from Louisiana-the last federally-occupied former Confederate state-just 12 years after the end of the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-4: -He wanted to eliminate political acts of violence committed against Blacks.
Detailed explanation-5: -After 1867, an increasing number of southern whites turned to violence in response to the revolutionary changes of Radical Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations targeted local Republican leaders, white and Black, and other African Americans who challenged white authority.