2. • Led by Conservative Southerners
• The General Amnesty Act gave most
Southerners the right to vote again
• Southerners wanted to “redeem the south”
from black rule
3. Election of 1876
• Republicans nominated Rutherford B. Hayes
• Democrats nominated Samuel J. Tilden
7. Who Won?
• At first looked like Tilden won
• He had 184 of the 185 electoral votes needed
• South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida sent in
conflicting reports. (They were still federally
occupied)
8. • Congress set up a commission of 15 men to
see who would get the votes
• In a vote of 7 to 8 all votes went to the
Republicans
• Hayes Won!
9. Compromise of 1877
• Democrats hinted at another civil war
• Democrats would allow the votes to be
counted
• The remainder of the federal troops would be
removed from the south
Hinweis der Redaktion
Several blacks held government positions…600 were state legislators, some were judges and others were elected to Congress…began electing white democrats to replace blacks and republicans
