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Which president's election in 1876 marked the end of congressional Reconstruction and protection of former slaves' civil rights in the South?

A.
Rutherford B. Hayes

B.
Ulysses Grant

C.
Chester A. Arthur

D.
Andrew Johnson

User Chop
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The answer is (A , Rutherford Hayes, however if you read an article of this event it has an interesting twist to it.
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I believe it was A.
Rutherford B. Hayes
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