​Time for another election

​nDuring Reconstruction, the Southern states became known as the Solid South because they consistently supported the Democratic Party.

​Who gets to be president?

​nIn 1876, Samuel Tilden

(a Democrat) won the popular vote to become president, but lost a disputed electoral vote to Rutherford B. Hayes

(a Republican).

​Another day, another compromise

​nUnder the Compromise of 1877, the Democrats in Congress agreed to the election of Hayes as president . . .

​Another day, another compromise

​. . . and the Republicans in Congress promised to withdraw federal troops from the South, which ended Reconstruction in 1877.