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The Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction

Federal troops withdraw from the South, abandoning Black citizens to white-supremacist "Redeemer" governments.

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March 2, 1877
The Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction
Federal troops withdraw from the South, abandoning Black citizens to white-supremacist "Redeemer" governments.

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