October 13, 1874

Voters ratified the new Arkansas state constitution and elected a slate of Democrats to office, thus bringing an end to Reconstruction. The new constitution replaced the one ratified in 1868, which, written and promoted primarily by Republicans and carpetbaggers, had allowed Arkansas to rejoin the Union after the Civil War.

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