feb 26, 1877 - The Compromise of 1877 is the basis for settling the 1876 presidential election. Democrats concede the Presidency to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in exchange for the complete withdrawal of federal troops from the South. The agreement confirms the end of the Reconstruction Era and ushers in Jim Crow laws
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