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How did Rutherford B. Hayes win the election of 1876?

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By promising to end Northern monitoring of the South, essentially ending the Reconstruction era and appeasing the Southern Democrats to vote for him, winning the election.

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Hayes promptly made good on the secret pledges made during the electoral dispute to withdraw federal troops from states still under military occupation
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