@paninid @StillIRise1963

https://richard.rathe.org/2020/contested-election-1876-tilden-hayes

Does this map look familiar? "1876 #US #presidential #election #contested #states

"#Tilden clearly won the popular vote, but the electoral vote as contested in four states for various reasons. Ironically (from today’s perspective) the Republicans accused the Democrats of suppressing the vote of African Americans in the South."

"The upshot of all this was the #CompromiseOf1877, an informal bit of horse-trading by #Congress to give the majority of electoral votes to #Hayes in return for the withdrawal of federal troops protecting the rights of former slaves in the South, thus ending #Reconstruction and paving the way for the #JimCrow era to begin."

A Dark Day for America, Let's Not Allow a Repeat!

6/23 As we saw in the #CivilWar thread, when Lincoln won the election of 1860, the South seceded and attacked.

The Union won, and federal troops occupied the South during what's called the #ReconstructionEra; the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and "Reconstruction Amendments" to the Constitution (13, 14, and 15) were signed and implemented and progress could've grown deep roots...

but it all got rooted up and killed with the #Compromiseof1877 to settle the disputed presidential election of 1876.