The contentious 1876 U.S. election was resolved by the informal, unwritten Compromise of 1877. Republican Rutherford B. Hayes won the presidential election on the condition that he would withdraw federal troops from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana.
The Reconstruction era came to an end with the Compromise of 1877, an unofficial agreement between southern Democrats and Rutherford Hayes' supporters on the Republican side to settle the outcome of the 1876 presidential election.
In the immediate aftermath of the 1876 presidential election, it became apparent that the outcome of the contest depended heavily on contested results from Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina—the only three Southern states still governed by Republican administrations from the Reconstruction era.
Early in 1877, as a bipartisan congressional commission debated the results, supporters of the Republican Party's Rutherford Hayes met in secret with moderate southern Democrats to discuss accepting Hayes' victory.
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