
Phuong Van
The time of Reconstruction for the South was wrought with many
conflicting factors, which ultimately brought about the end, and noted failure,
of the plan
Progressively Southern states began electing members of the
Democratic Party into office, displacing thus termed carpetbagger governments
and scaring blacks from voting or striving to hold public office often through
the use of fear tactics. By 1876 the Republicans continued in power in just
three Southern states. As a piece of the negotiation that determined the
disputed presidential elections that year in preference of Rutherford B. Hayes,
the Republicans pledged to terminate Radical Reconstruction, thereby allowing
practically all of the control of the South to the Democratic Party. In 1877 Hayes
removed the remaining government military, virtually forsaking federal
accountability for ensuring blacks' civil rights.