The Democrats agreed not to block Hayes’ victory on the condition that Republicans withdraw all federal troops from the South, thus consolidating Democratic control over the region. The Union troops withdrew from  the South and went back to their barracks. So there was a standoff in Congress for months over how this presidential election was going to end. The Civil War ended in 1865. In the compromise, Southern Democrats agreed not to block the vote by which Congress awarded the contested electoral votes to Rutherford B. Hayes, and Hayes therefore became president. The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era. Imagine if blacks had remained a majority in most of the Southern states and did not have to flee the violence of the ku klux klan. Immediately after the presidential election of 1876, it became clear that the outcome of the race hinged largely on disputed returns from Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina–the only three states in the South with Reconstruction-era Republican governments still in power. Most, if not all of the Southern states would have black governors. The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal, informally arranged among U.S.

Maybe blacks would have accumulated enough wealth to have actually integrated into the US economically.Perhaps, it would be very different. Northern white parents wanted their boys to come back home. Within months, many of these governments passed the laws which we now call Jim Crow laws. In reality, whites had all the power and controlled all the resources. As a bipartisan congressional commission debated over the outcome early in 1877, allies of the Republican Party candidate Rutherford Hayes met in secret with moderate southern Democrats in order to negotiate acceptance of Hayes’ election. "In addition, accusations of corruption within the administration of In South Carolina, the election had been marred by bloodshed on both sides of the party line. It was passed specifically to protect African Americans.So, these Jim Crow laws in the South essentially overturned both the 14th and the 15th amendments. The “Crittenden Compromise,” as it became known, included six proposed constitutional In 1820, amid growing sectional tensions over the issue of slavery, the U.S. Congress passed a law that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery from the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands located north of the 36º 30’ With the chance to serve as chief executive of the world’s premier power at stake, the race for the U.S. presidency has delivered its share of hotly contested elections between the Democratic Party, Republican Party and various third-party candidates. The interpretation of racial difference and hierarchy among the races became more broadly accepted throughout the United States, not just in the South. What made the Compromise of 1877 unique was that it took place after the Civil War and was thus an attempt to prevent a second outbreak of violence.

There were several factors.There was a question of weariness and giving up on their part.

An Ohio native, Grant graduated from West Point and fought in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). Twelve years later, in 1877, there were still federal troops in the south. This was 59 years before Rosa Parks. They no longer interfered in the political system of the South. The former slave owners moved quickly. Even though segregation laws and violence such as lynching to enforce segregation laws existed mainly in the South, de facto segregation and widespread racial prejudice also existed in the North – particularly in housing and job discrimination.