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The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, which served to define the result of the American presidential elections of 1876, by means of which federal troops were withdrawn from the southern territories of the country, restoring the political power of the region to the Democratic Party on the condition that it accept the Republican victory in the presidential elections. This agreement ended the Era of Reconstruction that began after the American Civil War, reinstating the segregation system for African Americans in territories that had belonged to the Confederacy.
The fact that the colony of New Jersey had so many different churches, showed that the colonists enjoyed their religious freedom.
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Answer: Moving their goods down river to the Mississippi, to New Orleans, and then by sea to the cities on the Eastern Seaboard was cheaper and actually easier which made it a popular location for trade and to build cities . Also The Mississippi River provided water source to the people whom lived in the area.
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