The Democrats agreed to let the Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes, become president.What did Hayes promise to do in return?

In the Compromise of 1877, Southern Democrats accepted Rutherford B. Hayes’s presidency in exchange for ending federal military enforcement of Reconstruction. Hayes promised to withdraw the remaining U.S. troops from the South, so the correct choice is “Withdraw US troops from the South.”

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