Describe the Compromise of 1877. What were its consequences?
What will be an ideal response?
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The election of 1876 pitted Democrat Samuel Tilden against Republican Rutherford B. Hayes.
Tilden won the popular vote, but disputes over the results in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida prevented him from claiming victory.
A specially appointed congressional electoral commission failed to resolve the conflict.
To break the logjam, the Democrats agreed that Hayes could assume office in return for the withdrawal of all remaining federal troops from the South.
The Republicans tacitly agreed that Reconstruction was over and that blacks in the region should fend for themselves.
As a consequence, white Southerners were free to reconstitute the prewar racial status quo.
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