Reconstruction ended in the late 1870s due to several factors: the loss of power by Radical Republicans in Congress, Northern fatigue with reforming the South, and a desire to return control of Southern governments to white Southerners. The disputed 1876 presidential election was resolved by a commission that awarded Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency in exchange for removing federal troops from the South. This withdrawal ended Reconstruction and allowed Southern states to restrict the rights of Black Americans by imposing poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses to limit Black voting, along with segregation that was deemed legal under Plessy v. Ferguson.