Reconstruction Election of 1876 1) Identify the problem created by the Election of 1876 (why didn’t the House of Representatives pick a winner like they did in 1824)

Reconstruction Election of 1876

1) Identify the problem created by the Election of 1876 (why didn’t the House of Representatives pick a winner like they did in 1824).

2. President Grant created a 15 member commission to rule on the disputed electors. Why were Democrats unlikely to accept the commission's ruling?

3. The article discussed backroom negotiations that took place in order to make the commission's ruling acceptable. Explain backroom negotiations.

4. How do you think Andrew Jackson would have felt about the compromise that resolved the disputed Election of 1876?

5. Identify Southern Democrats demands for accepting the commission's ruling.

6. Why do you think Rutherford B. Hayes described his time as President as "a life of bondage, responsibility, and trial."?