Please note the implications of this "compromise." The North ended its occupation of all Confederate territories, not because there was no further need for "peacekeeping operations," but to appease political powers whose loyalty was purchased. This effectively halted any advancement black Americans had enjoyed in the South since Emancipation. Although Northern occupation of the South was ugly and demeaning, it allowed the recently freed slaves a chance to become meaningful members of society. For a brief moment of time, the Southern US became a balanced, multi-racial society, and blacks enjoyed some economic opportunity, voting rights and some integrations of public facilities, including city and state legislatures. After the hasty Federal withdrawal, Southern legislatures quickly expelled recently elected black officials, and in most states it would be nearly 100 years before any others were seated. Jim Crow barriers went up quickly, lychings began and racial terrorists like the KKK were given free rein to subdue those upstart ex-slaves. By engineering a convenient "compromise" in the name of averting an "insurrection," the US government abandoned Southern blacks to a fate of segregation, poverty and suppression. Beware the apparent conveniences of a "quick fix!"