What year did federal troops withdraw from the South and reconstruction end?

Answer 1

ANSWER:

The election of 1876, was the closest in American history at that time. Democratic candidate, Samuel J. Tilden, won some 250,000 popular votes, more than Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes, and at first had the edge in electoral votes of four states where the returns were in dispute - Oregon, South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida. Oregon only had one disputed vote, and that was quickly settled for Hayes.

The three remaining states were all in the South and were still under Republican carpetbag rule. The three states together had 19 electoral votes. If Hayes got them, he would win by one vote, 185 - 184. The carpetbag regimes were quite willing to turn their votes over to Hayes, but Democrats everywhere raised an outcry.

Congress set up a joint committee to examine the returns, composed of eight Republicans and seven Democrats. By a strict party line vote, the committee awarded all three states, and the election, to Hayes. At the same time some backstairs bargains silenced the Democrats.

The new President agreed to remove the federal troops from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana, thereby allowing the last southern states to be "redeemed" by Democrats. Republican leaders also agreed that southern railroad projects, such as the Texas Pacific, would get the same kind of government aid given to the Union Pacific.

The chain of bargains ended the crisis, and Hayes was sworn into office without incident. It also ended an era ~ an era that had begun with secession, an era in which Americans resorted to force and to military arms to resolve their differences. The bargain of 1877, shoddy though it was, at least restored the spirit of compromise.

Answer 2

The federal troops withdrew from the South in 1877. This action was a result of the Compromise of 1877 , in which Democrats agreed to let Rutherford B. Hayes become president in exchange for a complete withdrawal of federal troops from the South. Republicans agreed, and shortly after Hayes was sworn in as president, he ordered the remaining federal troops to vacate South Carolina and Louisiana. The background to the compromise was about the Presidential election of 1876. Democrat, Samuel Tilden was 1 electoral college vote shy of winning the election. The result, as proposed in the Constitution was to send the election to the House of Representatives. The problem was that the President of the United States at the time, Ulysses S. Grant was a Republican, and the Speaker of the House was from the Democratic party, so neither were trusted to recount votes in states where the vote count was in dispute. The result was the compromise.

Answer 3

Lee surrendered the army of Northern Virginia to Grant, on April 9, 1865. On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln is shot, and dies on April 15, 1865.

on April 26, 1865, Johnston, upon learning of Lee's surrender, asked Sherman for and formally surrendered his forces on at Durham Station, North Carolina.

The Trans-Mississippi Confederates also lay down their arms in May and June. The last Confederate general to surrender was Watie, leader of the Confederate Cherokees, on June 23, 1865.

Answer 4

According to professor Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters to an American, and the book How the South Won the Civil War, the last federal troops left the South later than 1877, as states battled for their removal in 1878 and 1879. Richardson cites most people from the time as considering 1870 and the readmission of Georgia to the Union as the end of Reconstruction

Answer 5

The last of the federal troops pulled out of the south in 1877. This was done on the orders of Rutherford B. Hayes who was the President at that time.

Answer 6

Rutherford B. Hayes removed the Union troops occupying the South as a compromise for his "stealing" the election of 1876.

Answer 7

Ulyssses S. Grant

Answer 8

1877.

Answer 9

1875