There were the growth organizations like Ku Klux Klan. Their aggressions kept away the African-Americans and the white Republicans from voting and gradually the radical Republican governments were overthrown. Their disintegration was enhanced by the death of the old radical leaders in Congress like Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Summer and by the disclosure of internal corruption in the radical Republican government. The Grant government was forced to decline its support of them because of growing criticism in the North of corruption in the federal government itself. (Reconstruction- www.gurunet.com) Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana only remained under the Republican domination by 1876. Rutherford B. Hayes the Republican presidential candidate during the year promised to ease the situations in the South. However, the sentiment there had already led to the establishment of the 'Solid South' favoring his Democratic opponent, Samuel J. Tilden. The presidential contest created the circumstances in those three states a strong-minded effort to throw off Republican rule and their electoral votes to suspend the fate of the famous disputed election of 1876. It is actually definite that one should have the majority and thus the presidency to Tilden. However, two forms of output were sent from each of the three states....
The Electoral Commission specially formed for the purpose acknowledged the outputs sent by the Republicans and Hayes was accorded the presidency. The reconstruction officially terminated with the withdrawn of all the federal troops from the South. The white rule was restored and the black people were deprived of many civil and political rights gradually and their economic status continues to worsen. The hopes of the radicals for a basic reformation of the social and economic order of the South, much further the abolition of slavery mitigated. Rather this gave rise to the formation of the one-party 'solid south' and enhanced racial resentment.
Second Reconstructions One of the most dramatic consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction was that the South was effectively driven from national power for roughly six decades. Southerners no longer claimed the presidency, wielded much power on the Supreme Court, or made their influence strongly felt in Congress But beginning in the 1930s, the South was able to flex more and more political muscle, and by the 1970s some
Failures of Civil War Reconstruction After the close of the Civil War in 1865, the U.S. government initiated a wide-ranging policy of reconstruction aimed at rebuilding the American South. This policy, made up of a first and second reconstruction, offered the promise of creating enduring racial justice. The goals of the first reconstruction included equality for black Americans in politics, voting and the use of public properties, while the second
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