What the Compromise of 1877 Meant
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1876 - 1877
08/31/2007
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Video MiniDocumentary
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2007
00:01:14
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The Compromise of 1877 is the hotly disputed presidential run off between Rutherford Hayes and
Samuel Tilden.
Keywords
Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, Presidential Election, Governor, Republicans, Democrats, Federal
Troops, South, Reconstruction, Black Rights, Negotiations, Voting, Florida, South Carolina, Louisiana,
2000 Election, National Government, Local Government
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Transcript
What the Compromise of 1877 Meant
Professor ERIC FONER (Columbia University): In 1876, you have this presidential election. Rutherford
Hayes, the governor of Ohio, is running for the Republicans. Samuel Tilden, ex-governor of New York at
that time, is running as the Democratic candidate. And it's a very close, disputed election, somewhat like
the election of 2000. And, in fact, who wins hinges on who carried these three Southern states: Florida,
South Carolina and Louisiana. Both parties claim to have carried those states. It's not clear who is elected.
Eventually, to make a long complicated story shorter, negotiations take place between the two parties, and
this so-called “Compromise” or “Bargain of 1877” is reached, in which the Democrats agree to recognize
Hayes, the Republican, as the victor in the presidential election, and Hayes agrees to recognize
Democratic control of those three disputed states on the state level and to pull remaining federal troops
out of the South.
And in effect, what Hayes is saying, we're going to end Reconstruction. The bargain is, the Republican
Party will control the national government, but the Democratic Party will control the South. And this
means that Reconstruction is over and the rights of blacks are going to slowly be rescinded, or eliminated,
in the South.
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