What president benefitted from the “Compromise of 1877?
Rutherford B. Hayes The “compromise” was that the Republicans would get the White House and the Democrats would get to keep local control in the Southern States, effectively reversing Reconstruction. It was a disaster for black Americans in the South. It paved the way to one hundred years of “Jim Crow” laws. It’s seen as a political backstabbing of African Americans by Republicans, who had won the Civil War and ended slavery with it. Northern families who had been devastated by the War itself also felt betrayed. Their family members had been killed or maimed for nothing during the War.
