Democrats
The Democrats gained power in most of the former Confederate states when the Reconstruction Era ended. For all practical purposes the Era was ended by 1874.
Democrats
Hayes withdrew the troops federal troops from the South
Reconstruction
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President in return for withdrawing federal troops from the South.
The military occupation of the South by the Federal Troops and the Reconstruction.
1877
When federal troops left in 1877
Federal troops were withdrawn from the South
When federal troops left in 1877
1877When the last federal troops were removed from the south.
The end of the Reconstruction.
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