End of Reconstruction

The American Civil War (1861–1865) was immediately followed by the Reconstruction era of United States history in the later 1860s and 1870s, until the end of Reconstruction. Historians discuss a complex variety of factors that ultimately ended Reconstruction. In particular, the hotly contested 1876 presidential election resolved with the Bargain of 1877, which many historians roughly mark as concluding, or significantly motivating the conclusion of, the post-Civil War era.

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