The Compromise of 1877 marked the dawn of a new era in American History. Most events after the compromise, decades down the road, are direct results of the compromise. Specifically blacks were most affected by this. Rights they were promised when they fought with the north in the civil war were gone. The rights were not taken away per say, but simply not enforced. The compromise that most likely saved the nation from breaking back into civil war had a snowball effect on the lives of everybody after it was made.
            
             Reconstruction was imperative in the history of the United States. Right after the civil war, the nation and its former enemy were now at peace and ready to become one again. It allowed the south to rejoin the nation under certain stipulations. As an alternative the south rejoined but adopted things like the black codes to continue persecuting the former slaves. Angering the north the south was put under military rule to enforce said stipulations agreed upon to rejoin the nation. While the north industrialized and prospered the south clung on to agriculture and slavery with all their might. Tensions were running high once again and the United States was on the brink of war all over again.
            
             The Compromise of 1877 prevented a war run nation from erupting back into battle. Essentially both the north and the south got some things they wanted and some they didn't, the definition of a compromise. Troops were removed from the south, Hayes was elected pending a democratic member in his cabinet, a second transcontinental railroad in the south, and legislation made to help industrialize the south. This seemed fair to everybody but of course not to the blacks. The Compromise of 1877 was a deal made by the Republicans and the Democrats. The deal was that the Democrats would agree to give Hayes the victory in the presidential election he had not clearly won. In return, the new president agreed to remove the remaining federal troops ...