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Jan 21, 2020 · Disputed returns and secret back-room negotiations put Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House—and Democrats back in control of the South.
Mar 17, 2011 · The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked...
The Compromise of 1877 resolved the electoral dispute of the 1876 presidential election. It gave the disputed electoral votes to the Republican candidate R. B. Hayes (thus making him president), in return for ending Reconstruction in the South.
Feb 17, 2013 · From around 1900 until the 1950s, Hayes was praised as the man who reunited the nation and ended that awful period known as Reconstruction. He was hailed as the “statesman of reunion.” In the first survey of historians rating the presidents done in 1948, Hayes was number 13 of 29 presidents. He held the same position in 1962.
He swiftly ended Reconstruction and pulled federal troops out of the last two occupied states, South Carolina and Louisiana. "Instead of withdrawing, he should have sent additional troops out there," Clay said.
Oct 29, 2009 · As president, Hayes ended Reconstruction within his first year in office by withdrawing federal troops from states still under occupation.
The Compromise of 1877, also known as the Wormley Agreement, the Bargain of 1877, or the Corrupt Bargain, was an unwritten political deal in the United States to settle the intense dispute over the results of the 1876 presidential election, ending the filibuster of the certified results and the threat of political violence in exchange for an ...
