RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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public support for the Democratic Party
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a compromise between Congress and the president
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pressure from Great Britain
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the enactment of military rule in 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: -But there were specific reasons why Reconstruction came to an end and those had to do with violence, corruption, race, factionalism and the election of 1876. A cartoon from the September 1, 1868, issue of the Tuscaloosa Independent Monitor.
Detailed explanation-3: -The most successful reconstruction plan was the one proposed by President Lincoln. Named the Ten Percent Plan, the plan was successful because it provided a reasonable process for the Confederate states to rejoin the United States government quickly.
Detailed explanation-4: -Reconstruction began when the first United States soldiers arrived in slaveholding territories and enslaved people escaped from plantations and farms; some of them fled into free states, and others found safety with U.S. forces.