SAT US History Practice Question

All of the following are considered factors in the collapse of Reconstruction in the 1870s EXCEPT

1. A.many Northerners simply lost interest in the issues and problems of the South.
2. B.a compromise following the disputed election of 1876 committed the Republican Party to withdrawing the last troops from the South.
3. C.the South had largely complied with the goals of Reconstruction, and the Radical Republicans felt satisfied that fairness and equality would exist in the South.
4. D.the Democrats in the South grew increasingly aggressive in asserting their right to run the governments of the Southern states.
5. E.many of the leading Radical Republicans, who had guided Congressional Reconstruction, had died by the 1870s.