RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Democrats and Republicans worked together on the commission to ensure a fair outcome.
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the commission making recommendations to Congress voted along party lines.
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the Senate agreed to give half of its votes to Hayes and half to Tilden.
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many believe Hayes was elected in exchange for a promise to end to Reconstruction.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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 Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden .
Detailed explanation-2: -The Compromise of 1877 gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency in exchange for the end of Reconstruction in the South.
Detailed explanation-3: -How did the Compromise of 1877 mark the beginning of the end of Reconstruction? It removed federal troops from the South.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Compromise of 1876 effectively ended the Reconstruction era. Southern Democrats’ promises to protect the civil and political rights of Black people were not kept, and the end of federal interference in southern affairs led to widespread disenfranchisement of Black voters.