Hayes and its impact on reconstruction and voting rights for African-Americans in the South. House of Representatives historian Matthew Wasniewski and House curator Farar Elliott discussed the ...

The deal that made Hayes president -- known as the Compromise of 1877 -- required the removal of federal troops from the South. This formally ended Reconstruction. "After Reconstruction came ...

The Democratic Congress, however, only accepted those results—on this day in 1877—once Hayes promised to withdraw federal troops from the South, thus ending Reconstruction. In an editorial ...

Here’s part of his reasoning: The most direct precedent on this question arose in 1877, following serious ... Hayes agreed to end Reconstruction, withdraw federal troops from the South, and ...

Cruz's speech curiously left out a very important fact: the Compromise of 1877. Because the 1876 ... As a result, the period known as Reconstruction — one in which efforts were made to bring ...

Democrats at the time were furious over the decision and only accepted it in a deal known as the Compromise of 1877, which stipulated that Republicans agreed to end Reconstruction and withdraw ...

During the Reconstruction era ... The controversial Compromise of 1877 was lauded by many at the time as a move that preserved the fragile Union and allowed the country to move forward as one.

University of Alabama professor Lesley Gordon taught a class about the end of Reconstruction, the removal of Union troops from the South, and the Compromise of 1877. Javascript must be enabled in ...