Compromise of 1877! Help!?

Question

What were siad to be the provisions of the Compromise of 1877?

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Answer 1

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Just read what I wrote below. It tells everything about the Compromise of 1877!

The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election. Through it, the Republican Rutherford Hayes was awarded the White House on the understanding he would remove the federal troops that were propping up Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. Consequently, the incumbent President, Republican Ulysses Grant, removed the soldiers from Florida, before Hayes as his successor removed the remaining troops in South Carolina and Louisiana. As soon as the troops left, many Republicans also left (or became Democrats) and the "Redeemer" Democrats took control.

The 1876 election showed a one-vote electoral college majority for the Republicans, but the Democrats protested and two sets of official results were sent to Congress by South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. An official Electoral Commission selected by Congress awarded the election to Hayes. Southern Democrats planned to block the Commission's report via filibuster. The Southerners had a weak hand, and the Republicans made promises that kept them quiet. The compromise resolved the crisis through a series of secret negotiations involving Republican and Democratic politicians, various interest groups and influential individuals, most notably the Texas and Pacific Railway company and its president, Tom Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who had also served as Assistant Secretary of War during the Civil War.

This is what it did:

The removal of all Federal troops from the former Confederate states. (Troops only remained in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida, but the Compromise finalized the process.) Hayes had already promised to do this.
The appointment of at least one Southern Democrat to Hayes' cabinet (David M. Key of Tennessee was appointed Postmaster General.) Hayes had already promised this;
The construction of another transcontinental railroad using the Texas and Pacific in the South (this had been part of the "Scott Plan" which initiated the process which led to the final compromise);
Legislation to help industrialize the South

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Answer 2

Compromise Of 1877

Answer 3

The Compromise of 1877 was conceived, a month before election day, to appease the Democratics, enraged that there wouldn't be anybody to inaguarate as president on March 4, 1877. In the compromise, the election deadllock was to be broken by the Electoral Court Act, which Congress passed in early 1877. It set up an electoral commision consisiting of fifteen men selected from the Senate, the House, and the Supreme Court. They exchanged ideas that would possibly mediate the dispute. The roll of the states were tolled off alphabetically. They soon agreed on the paristan vote of eight Republicans and seven Democrats. Again the Democrats were infuriated but reluctantly agreed that Hayes might take office in return for his withdrawing intimidaitng federaltroops from the two states of Louisiana and South Carolina. Though the Compromise brought peace, it ensued the sacrafice of black freedmen in the south and an abrupt cessation for the Reconstruction; the white democrats("Redeemers") resumed their polictical soverignty over the South and exercised it ruthlessly. Blacks who tried to assert their rights ced unemployment, eviction, and physical harm. Blacks (as well as poor whites) were forced into sharecropping and tenant farming. Former slaves were yet again at the mercy of the former masters, now their landlords nd creditors. Once again the south was in a bleak despair. Good luck in your classs. : )