President Ulysses S. Grant refused to send federal troops to restore order after race riots began in Louisiana in 1875, marking the end of the military component of Reconstruction in that state.
During the Reconstruction era, federal troops were deployed to several southern states to help enforce the rights of newly freed African Americans and to ensure that the former Confederate states were re-admitted to the Union on equal footing with the northern states. However, as the Reconstruction era came to an end, the federal government began to withdraw its military presence from the South, and the responsibility for maintaining order and enforcing the rights of African Americans fell largely to the states.
In 1875, race riots broke out in Louisiana, and President Grant was faced with a decision about whether to send federal troops to restore order. Ultimately, he chose not to do so, marking the end of the military component of Reconstruction in Louisiana and signaling a shift in the federal government's approach to enforcing civil rights in the South. The decision not to send federal troops was widely criticized at the time and is often seen as a key turning point in the history of civil rights in the United States.