Timeline Tuesday 10 April 1877

Events on Tuesday 10 April 1877 1

• 1877 Reconstruction ends in the American South Federal troops withdrawn under the Compromise of 1877 In April 1877, President Hayes ordered the withdrawal of the last federal troops stationed in Southern state capitals, ending military Reconstruction. Democratic 'Redeemer' governments took full control of the remaining Southern states. The withdrawal allowed the rollback of Reconstruction-era civil rights protections for African Americans in the following decades.