Rutherford Hayes won the 1876 presidential election defeating Samuel Tilden. In the 1876 presidential election Rutherford Hayes received 185 electoral votes and Samuel Tilden received 184 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Tilden 4,288,546 and Hayes 4,034,311. The electoral votes of 4 States were disputed. Congress referred the matter to the Electoral Commission which gave the decision to Rutherford B. Hayes.
To settle the 1876 presidential election
Radical rule in the South ended when Rutherford B. Hayes was elected in 1876. President Hayes helped with the last efforts of the Reconstruction after the Civil War ended.
The election of Barack Obama as President in 2008.
The Reconstruction period effectively ended with the Compromise of 1877, which resolved the disputed 1876 presidential election. In this agreement, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the presidency in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South, leading to the end of Reconstruction efforts. This withdrawal allowed Southern states to reassert control and implement discriminatory laws, marking a significant setback for African American civil rights.
Federal troops withdrew from the South on April 24, 1877, marking the end of Reconstruction. This withdrawal followed the Compromise of 1877, which resolved the contested 1876 presidential election and effectively returned control of Southern states to white Democrats. The departure of federal forces allowed for the establishment of Jim Crow laws and a significant rollback of civil rights for African Americans in the South.
1876
There was no election that year. The election was in 1876.
Hayes
There was no election that year. The election was in 1876.
The Constitution of Coahuila y Tejas, 1827
Kansas cast its 5 electoral votes for Rutherford Hayes in the 1876 election. The 1876 presidential election popular vote totals in Kansas were Samuel Tilden 37,902 and Rutherford Hayes 78,324.
Samuel J. Tilden
The Supreme Court decide the presidential election.
The controversy over the election drove a compromise that ended reconstruction.
The controversy over the election drove a compromise that ended reconstruction.
the irony of history that occurred in 1876 is that the election of 1876 officially crushed the american dream for millions of black americans
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