<P> The Radicals were opposed by former slaveowners and white supremacists in the rebel states . Radicals were targeted by the Ku Klux Klan, who shot to death one Radical Congressman from Arkansas, James M. Hinds . </P> <P> The Radical Republicans led the Reconstruction of the South . All Republican factions supported Ulysses Grant for President in 1868 . Once in office, Grant forced Sumner out of the party and used Federal power to try to break up the Ku Klux Klan organization . However, insurgents and community riots continued harassment and violence against African Americans and their allies into the early 20th century . By the 1872 presidential election, the Liberal Republicans thought that Reconstruction had succeeded and should end . Many moderates joined their cause as well as Radical Republican leader Charles Sumner . They nominated New - York Tribune editor Horace Greeley, who was also nominated by the Democrats . Grant was easily reelected . </P> <P> In state after state in the South, the Redeemers movement seized control from the Republicans until only three Republican states were left in 1876: South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana . Republican presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes announced that he favored restoring "home rule" in these states, provided they promised to respect the rights of the freedmen . When Hayes became President in 1877, he ordered the removal of federal troops and Redeemers took over in these states as well . As white Democratic - dominated state legislatures regained power and Congressional efforts to reconstruct the south faded, in the late 19th century after the Reconstruction period Jim Crow laws were enacted to limit the civil rights of former slaves . </P> <P> Liberal Republicans (in 1872) and Democrats argued the Radical Republicans were corrupt by the acts of accepting bribes (notably during the Grant administration). These opponents of the Radicals demanded amnesty for all ex Confederates, restoring their right to vote and hold public office . Foner's history of Reconstruction pointed out that sometimes the financial chicanery was as much a question of extortion as bribes . By 1872, the Radicals were increasingly splintered and in the Congressional elections of 1874 the anti-Radical Democrats took control of Congress . Many former Radicals joined the "Stalwart" faction of the Republican Party while many opponents joined the "Half - Breeds", but they differed primarily on patronage rather than policy . </P>

Why did the radical republicans begin to lose power in congress after 1876
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