Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction

Target entity: Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction
Context triple: [C. Vann Woodward, notableWork, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction]

• A. Compromise of 1877
  The Compromise of 1877 was the informal political deal that resolved the disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, ended Reconstruction, and paved the way for the rise of Jim Crow segregation in the American South.
• B. Reconstruction era
  The Reconstruction era was the period following the American Civil War when the United States attempted to reintegrate the seceded Southern states and redefine the legal and social status of formerly enslaved people.
• C. Sherman Compromise
  The Sherman Compromise, better known as the Great Compromise of 1787, was the Constitutional Convention agreement that created a bicameral U.S. legislature with proportional representation in the House and equal representation for states in the Senate.
• D. Redemption (end of Reconstruction governments)
  Redemption refers to the late-19th-century political movement in the American South in which white Democrats regained control from Reconstruction-era Republican governments, rolling back many advances in Black civil and political rights.
• E. Black Reconstruction in America
  Black Reconstruction in America is W. E. B. Du Bois’s landmark historical study that reinterprets the Reconstruction era as a period of Black political agency and class struggle, challenging dominant racist narratives in U.S. historiography.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction
Target entity description: "Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction" is a landmark historical study by C. Vann Woodward that analyzes how the political deal ending Reconstruction reshaped race relations and sectional politics in the post–Civil War United States.

• A. Compromise of 1877
  The Compromise of 1877 was the informal political deal that resolved the disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, ended Reconstruction, and paved the way for the rise of Jim Crow segregation in the American South.
• B. Reconstruction era
  The Reconstruction era was the period following the American Civil War when the United States attempted to reintegrate the seceded Southern states and redefine the legal and social status of formerly enslaved people.
• C. Sherman Compromise
  The Sherman Compromise, better known as the Great Compromise of 1787, was the Constitutional Convention agreement that created a bicameral U.S. legislature with proportional representation in the House and equal representation for states in the Senate.
• D. Redemption (end of Reconstruction governments)
  Redemption refers to the late-19th-century political movement in the American South in which white Democrats regained control from Reconstruction-era Republican governments, rolling back many advances in Black civil and political rights.
• E. Black Reconstruction in America
  Black Reconstruction in America is W. E. B. Du Bois’s landmark historical study that reinterprets the Reconstruction era as a period of Black political agency and class struggle, challenging dominant racist narratives in U.S. historiography.
• F. None of above. chosen