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The Sketchy Deal That Makes Hayes President (1877)

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The Contentious Election and Frustrations with the Grant Administration

This chapter discusses the Reconstruction era election, focusing on the efforts of Southern Democrats to disenfranchise black and white Republican voters. It also delves into the corruption within the Grant administration and the recession of 1873.

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