alleryStart learning →What step by President Hayes in 1877 ended northern rule in the south?
ADissolving the southern legislatures
BSuspending the Fourteenth Amendment
CRemoving the federal troops
DAppointing military governors
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Removing the federal troops
1. The 1876 election, one of the closest in American history, showed the south would have no peace while troops remained.
2. The next year President Rutherford B. Hayes removed them, admitting the failure of radical reconstruction.
3. After 12 years of false reconstruction, from 1865 to 1877, real efforts to rebuild the south began.
_Source: "An Outline of American History" (USIA, 1990, public domain), Ch 5 "Sectional Conflict"_
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