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How did Congress resolve the presidential election between Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877?
How did Congress resolve the presidential election between Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877?
Congress resolved the presidential election between Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877 by making a compromise in which Hayes was given the presidency in return for the end of Reconstruction and the removal of federal military support for the remaining biracial Republican governments in the former Confederacy.
