I think it happened because president Hayes had a bad reputation at that time and the idea was, the congress should be stronger to "look at his hands".
It is because they thought that following what others did was like losing their identities.
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Following the U.S. Civil War, the Radical Republicans attempted to put a land reform through Congress, promising, 40 acres and a mule, to newly-freed blacks in the South, which was rejected by moderate elements as socialistic. This failure left blacks without an economic base, and was one of the key contributing factors to the development of sharecropping and segregation.
Explanation:
to view themselves as a cohesive unit and avoid political parties and issues a special warning to be wary of attachments and entanglements with other nations
