The Compromise of 1877 was the event that ended Reconstruction. The compromise did more than just end Reconstruction, it also settled the 1876 Presidential election dispute and removed federal troops from the South.
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Reconstruction
The end of reconstruction was made effective by a movement which gathered energy up during the Compromise of 1877, in the process called Redemption.
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President Hayes kept removes troops from the South. The order was given on May 1st, 1877. The decision to end Reconstruction and return the rule to Southerners, soon resulted in the disenfranchisement of the Blacks in the South.
Officially it was when Edmund J Davis left office as governer of Texas (in 1874; January, I think) and Richard Coke, a southern Democrat took office.