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How did the election of 1876 affect reconstruction?

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The Reconstruction ended with President Rutherford's order for federal troops to leave the southern states. Thus, with Rutherford's election in 1876, in one of the most disputed elections in the history of the United States of America, Reconstruction was at an end.
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