Promise
Withdraw federal troops and accept Southern home rule
Hayes is tracked as delivered because his administration withdrew federal troops from key Southern states in 1877, accelerating the collapse of Reconstruction-era protection and leaving Black citizens more exposed to disenfranchisement, intimidation, and violent white supremacist restoration.
President
Rutherford B. Hayes
Status
Delivered
Topic
Civil Rights / Federal Enforcement
Actions
3
Outcomes
1
Impact Context
Documented outcome directions: Negative.
Promise Text
Rutherford B. Hayes moved to settle the disputed 1876 election and stabilize his presidency by ending direct federal military support for the remaining Republican state governments in the South, effectively accepting a narrower federal role in protecting Reconstruction governments and Black civil and political rights.
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