RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE ELECTION OF 1876
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Samuel Tilden won the popular vote so the republicans let him be president.
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Rutherford Hays gets to be president if he promises to remove troops from the South.
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The decide to start sharecropping as long as their is no slavery.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Compromise itself secured Hayes’s authority as a political fact, and the subsequent withdrawal of the last federal troops from the Southern United States, effectively ending the Reconstruction Era and forfeiting the Republican claims to the state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.
Detailed explanation-2: -Democrats agreed that Rutherford B. Hayes would become president in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the granting of home rule in the South.
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.