Question

guided practice
how did the compromise of 1877 help end reconstruction?
a. republican rutherford b. hayes was elected president in return for adding five southern supreme court justices.
b. republican rutherford b. hayes was elected president in return for adding a southern majority to the senate.
c. republican rutherford b. hayes was elected president in return for giving the southern democrats control of the house.
d. republican rutherford b. hayes was elected president in return for withdrawing federal troops from the south.

Explanation:

The Compromise of 1877 resolved the disputed 1876 presidential election. Southern Democrats agreed to accept Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president in exchange for the withdrawal of remaining federal troops from the Southern states. Without federal military support, the Reconstruction-era efforts to enforce civil rights and maintain Republican governments in the South collapsed, effectively ending Reconstruction.

Answer:

D. Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President in return for withdrawing federal troops from the South.