16 Sept 1877 Jahr - Rutherford Hayes

Beschreibung:

Rutherford Birchard Hayes was an American politician who served as the 19th President of the United States from 1877 to 1881. He assumed the presidency at the end of the Reconstruction Era through the Compromise of 1877. In 1877 the Republican Party leaders made a deal to get their candidate, Rutherford Hayes, elected president. In return for the necessary electoral votes, they agreed to remove Union troops from the South. This took away the last military protection for southern blacks. Their legal protection was crumbling, too, as the Southern states passed laws that chipped away at equality.