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The Sketchy Deal That Makes Hayes President (1877)

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Exploring the post-election chaos as southern states threatened to send rogue electors and multiple competing electoral slates, ultimately resulting in the end of reconstruction and Rutherford B. Hayes becoming the 19th president.

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