The Civil War and Reconstruction — Test

Question 1 • US History and Geography

What was problematic about the 1876 presidential election?

Answer

Hayes won the popular vote, Tilden narrowly won the electoral vote, and Florida’s voting results were disputed.

The Republican Party was divided between Grant’s followers and the Liberal Republicans.

One of Grant’s staff members ran for president, even though he’d been accused of taking bribes.

Tilden won the popular vote, Hayes narrowly won the electoral vote, and votes in four states were disputed.

Explanation

Samuel Tilden won the popular vote in 1876, but neither candidate initially had a clear, uncontested electoral-vote majority. The results in Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Oregon were disputed; after a special commission awarded those electoral votes to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, he won the electoral vote by a single vote. So the problem was Tilden’s popular-vote victory alongside Hayes’s narrow, disputed electoral-vote victory—not the reverse described in A.

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