What was the outcome of the Compromise of 1877?

• A. Extended Reconstruction with a new wave of federal legislation.
• B. Ended Reconstruction; federal troops withdrew from the South and Rutherford B. Hayes became president.
• C. Passed a new civil rights act that guaranteed equal rights nationwide.
• D. Led to a constitutional amendment banning segregation.

Answer: (B)

The main idea is that the Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction by resolving the disputed 1876 election in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes in exchange for withdrawing federal troops from the South. With the troops gone, Southern states could reassert local control, and protections for newly freed African Americans diminished, leading toward the Jim Crow era. So the outcome is that Reconstruction ended; federal troops withdrew from the South and Hayes became president. The other possibilities didn’t occur as a direct result of the compromise—there wasn’t a fresh wave of federal Reconstruction laws, a nationwide civil rights act, or a constitutional amendment banning segregation.