Question

Identify the significant political repercussions of the contested elections of 1876.

Answer 1

During the contested election of 1876, Rutherford Hayes and Samuel Tilden were bitterly debating over who was the rightful winner of the White House. The Compromise of 1877 came from these disagreements: Hayes was given the White House, but would also pull the northern troops from the southern states and would end Reconstruction. This ended up leading to the rise of Jim Crow laws and de jure slavery by many of those same states.