Which event essentially ended the era of Reconstruction?

Select the best answer from the choices provided.

A.

the Panic of 1873

B.

the election of President Grant

C.

the Supreme Court case United States v. Cruikshank

D.

the Hayes-Tilden election

In 1877, Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south, and the bayonet-backed Republican governments collapsed, thereby ending Reconstruction. Over the next three decades, the civil rights that blacks had been promised during Reconstruction crumbled under white rule in the south.