Answer:
There was white resistance on a social, economic, and political level so that efforts at reconstruction were rescinded or failed to materialize in a substantive way.
Step-by-step explanation:
The Compromise of 1876 effectively ended the Reconstruction era. Southern Democrats had paid lip service to protecting the rights of black citizens in the Southern states but in truth when the federal government stopped imposing the reconstruction era measures there was a widespread disenfranchisement of blacks voters. The Republican legislation that had been put in place following the war had failed to protect former slaves from the whites reestablishing their dominance of Southern society and there was little in the way of fundamental change in the cultural landscape of the South. Reconstruction ended and many goals were left unaccomplished or were rescinded. When President Rutherford Hayes was inaugurated; the federal troops who had been helping to enforce reconstruction measures left their posts and the federal government began to back step on protections for the rights of former slaves.