When Rutherford B. Hayes became President in 1877, he ordered the removal of federal troops from the South. Hayes was the 19th U.S. President.
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Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th President of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881. The Hayes dollar coin was minted in 2011, and is worth one dollar.
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 over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden on the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops that were propping up Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President in return for withdrawing federal troops from the South.
Most of the troops were removed during Ulysses Grant'ssecond term. The final removals, from South Carolina and Louisiana, took place early in the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877.
President Rutherford Hayes agreed to end Reconstruction in the Compromise of 1877. He agreed to remove federal troops from South Carolina and Louisiana. The Reconstruction Era was the period between 1865 and 1877 after the Civil War. The goal was the reconstruction of the South after this war.