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The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement that linked Hayes's confirmation to the end of Reconstruction in the South, allowing the rollback of many federal protections for Black Americans.
Rutherford B. Hayes played a consequential role in the formal end of Reconstruction by accepting the political bargain that removed federal military enforcement from the South, a move that directly we...
Rutherford B. Hayes’s removal of the last federal troops from Southern statehouses in spring 1877 is widely identified by historians and contemporary sources as the decisive act that ended Reconstruct...
Rutherford B. Hayes’s victory in the presidential election of 1876 was one of the most disputed and controversial contests in U.S. history: Democrat Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote and led in th...