In order to convince southern Democrats to accept the election of Rutherford B. Hayes as president, what did Republican backers of Hayes promise?
A) to remove the remaining federal troops from the South.
B) to allow Democrats to take over the last of the Republican Reconstruction governments.
C) that the federal government help pay off the Confederate war debt.
D) to award half of all federal patronage to southern Democrats.
E) to provide federal aid for building factories and urban recreation areas throughout the South.

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The Compromise of 1877, which resolved the disputed 1876 presidential election, involved an informal agreement where Republican backers of Rutherford B. Hayes promised to withdraw the remaining federal troops from the South, effectively ending Reconstruction.

In Order to Convince Southern Democrats to Accept the Election