Question

How did the Compromise of 1877 effectively end Reconstruction?

A. Democrats gave up three of their Southern state governments to Republican rule in order to win the presidency.
B. Republicans agreed to remove federal troops from the last three Republican states in the South in order to win the presidency.
C. Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes agreed to serve on the same ticket in exchange for Northern concessions in the South.
D. Southern blacks agreed to give up their voting rights for a short time in order for the presidency to be decided and order to be restored in the South.

Answer 1

The correct answer is C. "Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes agreed to serve on the same ticket in exchange for Northern concessions in the South."

The Compromise of 1877 was a deal created in order to resolve the dispute for 1876 U.S presidential election between the Democratic candidate Samuel Tilden and Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes.

Democrats agreed in order for Rutherford B. Hayes become a president the withdrawal of federal troops from Louisiana and South Carolina and the concession of home rule in the South.

The withdrawal of federal troops from the South marked a big decisive change in the history of American political that ended the Reconstruction Era.

Answer 2

The correct answer is "C".

The reconstruction was the period that the United States went through right after the end of the Civil War in 1865.

Through a series of negotiations that took many years, Samuel Tilden and Rutherford Hayes both agreed with the Democrats that they will grant concessions in the southern estates in exchange for the political power. Purchase on such lands was not seen as attractive by northern Democrats prior to these arrangements.