Also, Reconstruction-era governments were temporary - class-based - alliances of newly enfranchised black males and white small landholding males that shifted tax burden upwards, created common schools, made infrastructural improvements. Compromise of 1877 signalled end - white southern Bourbon Democrats who had never been completely vanquished agreed to *allow* Republican Hayes to become president in exchange for white northern Republicans dropping support for black civil liberties/rights. More specifically, southern planters and northern industrial bourgeoisie came to an understanding. Wave of 'white terror' in south following removal of Union troops coincided with bourgeois reaction and suppression of railroad strike in north. Michael Hoover