RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Hayes became president; troops were removed from the South
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Johnson became president; federal troops occupied the South
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Lincoln became president; federal troops occupied the North
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Hayes became president; federal troops occupied the North
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Detailed explanation-1: -Under the compromise, Democrats controlling the House of Representatives allowed the decision of the Electoral Commission to take effect. The outgoing president, Republican Ulysses S. Grant, removed the soldiers from Florida, and as president, Hayes removed the remaining troops from South Carolina and Louisiana.
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: -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 end of the Reconstruction era.
Detailed explanation-4: -The withdrawal marked the end of Reconstruction and paved the way for the unrestrained resurgence of white supremacist rule in the South, carrying with it the rapid deterioration of political rights for Black people.