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==Timeline==
 
==Timeline==
 
===Hayes presidency===
 
===Hayes presidency===
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[[File:Rutherford Hayes by Huntington.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Painting of President Hayes, who betrayed his Radical Republican roots.]]
 
The Compromise of 1877 that resolved the controversies and disputes of the [[United States presidential election, 1876|1876 presidential election]] gave the [[White House]] to Republican [[Rutherford Hayes]] over [[Bourbon Democrat]] opponent [[Samuel J. Tilden]]. Soon after taking office, Hayes abandoned his past [[Radical Republican]]ism and pulled federal troops from the [[the South]], all but ensuring a Jim Crow Democrat takeover of the region.
 
The Compromise of 1877 that resolved the controversies and disputes of the [[United States presidential election, 1876|1876 presidential election]] gave the [[White House]] to Republican [[Rutherford Hayes]] over [[Bourbon Democrat]] opponent [[Samuel J. Tilden]]. Soon after taking office, Hayes abandoned his past [[Radical Republican]]ism and pulled federal troops from the [[the South]], all but ensuring a Jim Crow Democrat takeover of the region.
  
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