Chapter 15 Reflection

What I knew already about this event in the history of the United States was that it took nearly three presidents for the Reconstruction period to finally end. I also knew that around this time the KKK, or the Ku Klux Klan as formerly know, was founded around this time period to "terrorize" the Blacks. But I did learn something unusual that lead to the end of the Reconstruction Era. It was the fact that Democratic Southerners had made a compromise with the Northern Republicans that they would pull out the federal troops from the South for them to not care who ends up being the president. It is important that people across the U.S. should learn about this important date in history is how it later leads to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's and that even though the African Americans were freed from the oppression of slavery, they still had to deal with segregation, lynchings, and the inability to vote.