What Event Marked the Failure and End of Reconstruction in the South

question 39

Multiple Choice

What event marked the failure and end of Reconstruction in the South?

• A) Grant refused to intervene in the violence resulting from the Mississippi Plan, signaling a change in northern thinking.
• B) Southern Democrats regained control of Congress.
• C) The Compromise of 1877 brought moderate Republican Rutherford B. Hayes to the White House where he promptly withdrew federal troops from the South.
• D) The election of Democrat Samuel B. Tilden as president of the United States.
• E) Republicans in Congress proposed that attempts at Reconstruction be suspended for a time, all concurred, and it never started up again.

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