RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS
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development of the sharecropping systems
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withdrawal of federal troops in the South
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election of a Democratic President
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Success of the Freedman’s Bureau
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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: -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: -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.