The Compromise of 1877 was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.
The compromise of 1877 ended reconstruction by pulling Hayes pulling troops out of the south. This ended a brief period of prosperity for African Americans and allowed white landowners to begin crop sharing. The Jim Crow laws began and the African Americans no longer had the rights they so shortly had
