The main reasons were, America's support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule, and the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor.
<span>Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus, or the right to be brought before a judge to tell what one is being charged with, in the border states during the beginning of the civil war in order to prevent them from seceding. He considered it necessary for the preservation of the union.</span>
An informal deal was struck to resolve the dispute: the Compromise of 1877, which awarded all 20 electoral votes to Hayes; in return for the Democrats' acquiescence to Hayes' election, the Republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.
