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Why did the presidential election of 1876 signal the end of Reconstruction?

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The Compromise of 1876 essentially ended the Reconstruction era. When Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was elected, he withdrew the last federal troops from the South and appointed a southerner to a powerful cabinet position.

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