The person that is being described above is J.P. Morgan and the answer for this would be option B. J.P. Morgan was the known "robber baron" who consolidated Carnegie steel and the national steel company into U.S. Steel in the year 1901. Hope this answers your question.
Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877. The Compromise of 1877 allowed for Federal Troops to be removed from the South and for the South to deal with African-Americans as they chose in return for the acceptance of the Republican President, Rutherford B. Hayes.
In short, the Republicans gave away the farm and most African-Americans were disenfranchised by the early 1900s.
At the time he many people didn't like him. He wasn't that popular in areas where the Jim Crow laws were enacted and the Kkk hated him.
