The High Commission in session in Washington

The High Commission in session in Washington, was formed to resolve the deadlock in the 1876 presidential election. They settled on the Compromise of 1877, an informal, unwritten deal, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 US presidential election. As a result the Republican candidate, Rutherford Hayes, became President, and the Federal Government abandoned post war Reconstruction of the South withdrawing the Federal Troops who protected African Americans civil rights

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1877 Compromise Contested Crow Discrimination Electoral Lcgr1907 Lcgr2019 Oppression Redemption Rutherford Segregation Supremacy Tilden

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