Jim Clyburn spoke about the 1876 presidential election at the end of his speech at the Aiken County Democratic Party Blue ...

The troops did not come. After the disputed 1876 presidential election and the subsequent Compromise of 1877, federal troops withdrew from the South entirely. Reconstruction was over, replaced by ...

Nowhere is the complete lack of democracy more apparent than in the system to elect the president of the United States: the ...

Tilden's opponent, Rutherford B. Hayes, had 165 electoral votes. In what's known as the Compromise of 1877, Hayes struck a deal that awarded him 20 electoral votes — enough to win the election ...