RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE ELECTION OF 1876
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came about suddenly.
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occurred despite the continued strength of the Radical Republicans.
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happened as northerners turned their attention to other issues
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became official when the Freedmen’s Bureau was dissolved in 1872.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Northern Reconstruction had long-term effects on the entire nation. A newly invigorated nation expanded westward and flexed its muscles internationally. The Northern economic model was ignored in the South but spread throughout the rest of the country, setting the stage for huge economic expansion in the Gilded Age.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many in the North were infuriated that the South would be returning their former Confederate leaders to power. They were also alarmed by Southern adoption of Black Codes that sought to maintain white supremacy. Recently freed blacks found the postwar South very similar to the prewar South.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.