✨The 1876 presidential election was one of the most controversial in US history, with disputed electoral votes in three southern states.
🔁Democrats regained control of most southern states by 1876, indicating a waning support for Reconstruction.
🗳️Samuel Tilden won the national popular vote, but Rutherford B. Hayes secured the presidency through the compromise of 1877.
🌍The compromise of 1877 resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the end of Reconstruction.
🔒The compromise of 1877 also marked the beginning of the Jim Crow era, with African Americans facing institutionalized segregation and discrimination.