Election of 1876 - The Crisis
The Republican candidate in the Election of 1876, nicknamed “The Great Unknown.”
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
The law passed in 1877 to resolve the disputed presidential election.
What is the Electoral Count Act?
The informal agreement that resolved the Election of 1876.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The year Reconstruction officially ended.
What is 1877?
The white Southern Democrats who regained political power after Reconstruction.
Who were the Redeemers?
The Democratic candidate who won the popular vote and nearly won the presidency in 1876.
Who was Samuel J. Tilden?
The number of members on the electoral commission created to settle the election.
What is 15?
In exchange for Hayes becoming president, Democrats demanded the removal of this from the South.
What are federal troops?
President Hayes’s policy signaling the end of federal intervention in the South.
What is the “Let ’em Alone” policy?
The agricultural system that trapped many Black farmers in perpetual debt.
What is sharecropping?
The number of electoral votes needed to win the presidency in 1876.
What is 185?
The partisan breakdown of the commission that decided the election.
What is 8 Republicans and 7 Democrats?
The two southern states where federal troops were withdrawn as part of the compromise.
What are Louisiana and South Carolina?
The Supreme Court case that declared much of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional.
What are the Civil Rights Cases (1883)?
The credit system that allowed merchants to keep farmers economically dependent.
What is the crop-lien system?
These four states had disputed electoral votes in the Election of 1876.
What are Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Oregon?
The first southern state whose disputed electoral votes were reviewed by the commission.
What is Florida?
One economic promise made to Democrats involving southern infrastructure.
What is support for the Texas and Pacific Railroad?
The 1875 law that was described as the last “feeble gasp” of Radical Republicans.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
The system of state laws enforcing racial segregation by the 1890s.
What are Jim Crow laws?
The constitutional problem that caused the election crisis: the Constitution did not specify who should do this.
What is count the electoral votes?
The tactic Democrats threatened to use in Congress to block Hayes’s victory.
What is a filibuster?
The group whose civil rights were sacrificed as part of the compromise.
Who were African Americans?
The term describing how Republican governments collapsed once federal troops were withdrawn.
What is the fall of bayonet-backed governments?
The Supreme Court case that upheld segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?