Read the text provided by a historian, and then answer the questions.What happened once Reconstruction ended?

After Reconstruction ended in 1877, federal troops withdrew from the South, and Republican governments that had been supported by federal authority fell. Sending federal troops to the former Confederacy happened during Reconstruction, while Tilden and the Democrats contested the 1876 election as part of the events that led to Reconstruction’s end.

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