The Compromise of 1877<span> was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the national government pulling the last federal troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.</span>
Lines of latitude, also called parallels, "<span>a. run in an east and west direction and measure distance north and south of the equator". The other types of lines are referred to as "longitude"</span>
Roosevelt authorized the dam project with National Industrial Recovery act money. (It was later specifically authorized by the Rivers and Harbors act of 1935, and then reauthorized by the Columbia Basin Project act of 1943 which put it under the Reclamation Project act of 1939.)
