RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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Question
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Tilden was given the presidency in return for selecting Republicans for every cabinet position in his administration.
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the radical Republicans agreed to disband if Hayes was given the presidency.
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Southerners generally voted for a third-party candidate.
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Hayes was given the presidency in return for the removal of federal troops from he South.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election; through it Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House on the understanding that he would remove the federal troops from South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Compromise of 1877, also known as the Wormley Agreement or the Bargain of 1877, was an unwritten deal, informally arranged among members of the United States Congress, to settle the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden.
Detailed explanation-3: -As a result of the so-called Compromise of 1877 (or Compromise of 1876), Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina became Democratic once again, effectively bringing an end to the Reconstruction era.