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The Compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877 , also known as the Wormley Agreement or the Bargain of 1877 , was an unwritten political deal in the United States to settle the intense dispute over the results of the 1876 presidential election , ending the filibuster of the certified results and the threat of political violence in exchange for an end to federal Reconstruction. No written evidence of such a deal exists and its precise details are a matter of historical debate, but most historians agree that the federal government adopted a policy of leniency towards the South to ensure federal authority and Hayes's election. The existence of an informal agreement to secure Hayes's political authority, known as the Bargain of 1877, was long accepted as a part of American history. Its supposed terms were reviewed and revised by historian C. Vann Woodward in his 1951 book Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End o...
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