1877
Federal troops were withdrawn from the South
Reconstruction; in 1877, the US began removing Federal troops/administrators from the former Confederacy.
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President in return for withdrawing federal troops from the South.
President Rutherford Hayes agreed to end Reconstruction in the Compromise of 1877. He agreed to remove federal troops from South Carolina and Louisiana. The Reconstruction Era was the period between 1865 and 1877 after the Civil War. The goal was the reconstruction of the South after this war.
Most of the troops were removed during Ulysses Grant'ssecond term. The final removals, from South Carolina and Louisiana, took place early in the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877.
Federal troops were withdrawn from the South
1877When the last federal troops were removed from the south.
The last Federal troops (about 3000 out of a total US Army of 27,000) were withdrawn from the South in 1877 by Rutherford B Hayes.
Rutherford B. Hayes was president when the last of the occupying federal troops were withdrawn from the defeated Southern states , which event if generally considered the end of Reconstruction.
Hayes
The Compromise of 1877 was the event that ended Reconstruction. The compromise did more than just end Reconstruction, it also settled the 1876 Presidential election dispute and removed federal troops from the South.
The military troops stationed throughout the South to enforce the Radical Reconstruction Act were deployed by the federal government under the authority of President Ulysses S. Grant. This was done to ensure the protection of freed slaves and to maintain order during the Reconstruction period following the American Civil War.
Hayes withdrew the troops federal troops from the South
In 1877 when President Hayes removed the last troops in the South
Reconstruction
Rutherford B. Hayes
The military occupation of the South by the Federal Troops and the Reconstruction.