RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA
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Question
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The Republicans could no longer influence the south because of the Panic of 1873
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The Southerners were not willing to go through with the change and made more Anti-Black laws
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The Republican Unity began to break causing their imposing of reconstruction couldn’t continue
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The Republicans had no more ideas and could not continue making changes
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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: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The issues of enfranchisement and disfranchisement split the Republican Party between those who believed the party should protect the ideals of the Union, no matter the consequences, and those who believed in treading carefully to expand the power of the party nationally.
Detailed explanation-4: -After the end of Reconstruction, racial segregation laws were enacted. These laws became popularly known as Jim Crow laws. They remained in force from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 until 1965. The laws mandated racial segregation as policy in all public facilities in the southern states.