USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What ended Reconstruction?
A
Plessy v. Ferguson
B
the Civil Rights Cases
C
Compromise of 1877
D
Lincoln’s assassination
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Compromise of 1877 gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency in exchange for the end of Reconstruction in the South.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era.

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.

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