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Numerous educated [[Black people|blacks]] and free people of color moved to the South to work for Reconstruction. Some were elected to office in the Southern states, or were appointed to certain positions. The Reconstruction governments were unpopular with many white Southerners, who were not willing to accept defeat and continued to try to prevent black political activity by any means. While the elite [[planter class]] often supported insurgencies, violence against freedmen and other Republicans was usually carried out by other whites; the secret [[Ku Klux Klan]] chapters developed in the first years after the war as one form of insurgency.
In the 1870s, [[paramilitary organizations]], such as the [[White League]] in [[Louisiana]] and [[Red Shirts (Southern United States)|Red Shirts]] in [[Mississippi]] and [[North Carolina]], undermined the Republicans, disrupting meetings and political gatherings. These paramilitary bands also used violence and threats of violence to undermine the Republican vote. By the [[1876 United States presidential election|presidential election of 1876]], only three Southern states – [[Louisiana]], [[South Carolina]], and [[Florida]] – were "unredeemed", or not yet taken over by white Democrats. The disputed Presidential election between [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] (the Republican governor of [[Ohio]]) and [[Samuel J. Tilden]] (the Democratic governor of New York) was allegedly resolved by the [[Compromise of 1877]], also known as the [[Corrupt Bargain]] or the [[Compromise of 1877|Bargain of 1877]].<ref>Wes Allison, [http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/News/111700/Election2000/Election_2000_much_li.shtml "Election 2000 much like Election 1876"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807173410/http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/News/111700/Election2000/Election_2000_much_li.shtml |date=2011-08-07 }}, ''[[St. Petersburg Times]]'', November 17, 2000.</ref> In this compromise, it was claimed, Hayes became president in exchange for numerous favors to the South, one of which was the removal of Federal troops from the remaining "unredeemed" Southern states; this was however a policy Hayes had endorsed during his campaign. With the removal of these forces, Reconstruction came to an end.
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