What effect did the Compromise of 1877 have on the country? How did the compromise begin to directly impact various groups in the country (some groups to consider: formerly enslaved African Americans, white landowners in the south, African Americans living in the north, etc.)?

The Compromise of 1876 effectively ended the Reconstruction era. Southern Democrats' promises to protect civil and political rights of blacks were not kept, and the end of federal interference in southern affairs led to widespread disenfranchisement of blacks voters.The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal, informally arranged among U.S. Congressmen, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ending the Reconstruction Era.

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