 
Democrats win control of both houses of Congress for the first time since the Antebellum period.
1874
Whites regain majority control of the South Carolina legislature.
1875
An outgoing Republican Congress passes a Civil Rights Act granting African Americans equal access to public accommodations, including transportation.
1875
Whites in Mississippi vote in a "Redeemer" government.
1875
In Mississippi, over 20 African Americans are killed in the "Clinton Massacre."
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1877
By the so-called "Compromise of 1877," Republican Rutherford B. Hayes becomes president and the last federal troops withdraw from the South, marking the end of Reconstruction.
1877
Whites in Florida and Louisiana vote in "Redeemer" governments.
1878
The relocation of former slaves to Kansas, called the "Exoduster Movement," begins. Within the year, 30,000 blacks migrate to Kansas.
1881
Tennessee passes the first of its "Jim Crow" laws, segregating the state railroad. Other states follow the lead and legalize segregation.
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