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.
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He hoped it would give the US an advantage over the Soviet Union since it was much more powerful than an atomic bomb.
The Romans weathered a Germanic rising in the late fourth century, but in 410 the Visigoth Kong Alaric successfully sacked the city of Rome.
B. Back then slaves were very “useful”