jan 4, 1877 - Compromise of 1877 (End of Reconstruction)

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From Khan Academy:

"The Compromise of 1877 gave White Southerners their chance to stop the military occupation of the South. In the compromise, Southern Democrats agreed not to block the vote by which Congress awarded the contested electoral votes to Rutherford B. Hayes, and Hayes, therefore, became president. In return, Republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops from actively intervening in the politics of Louisiana and South Carolina (the last two states occupied by federal troops). Accordingly, within two months of becoming president, Hayes ordered federal troops in Louisiana and South Carolina to return to their bases."

This event marked the end of Reconstruction in the South and opened the door for the discriminatory Jim Crow laws of the South to emerge and flourish for decades.

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