The correct answer to this open question is the following.
The major cause of the end of Reconstruction was the informal negotiations between Democrats and Republicans to declare the winner of the elections of teh 1876 Presidential election. They negotiated and Democrats agreed to declare Rutherford B. Hayes with the following conditions.
Republicans accepted to sign the Compromise of 1877, in which they agreed on withdrawing the federal troops established in the southern states that were there to support Reconstruction. So without the presence and support of the federal troops, Reconstruction saw its last days and finally ended in 1877.
organized efforts to gain rights for women that resulted in the 1860 state legislature passing a law giving married women ownership of their wages and property.
No, it is generally false that rural <span>people were lured to the big city by higher factory wages and cultural and educational advantages, since those in the country usually stayed where they were. </span>
