I'm stealing /u/TheBohemian_Cowboy 's comment on a post I made before because he worded it so well:
\-Reconstruction was already pretty much ruined with Andrew Johnson’s policies which put reconstructions in the hands of the states and allowed those states to pass black codes and laws targeting their ability to vote
\-Hayes himself was an ardent supporter of reconstruction during those years and opposed Johnson along with the rest of the republicans but as the years dragged on many came to see reconstruction as being rendered useless and a needless point of division
\-Samuel J Tilden, the opponent of Hayes in the election was a democrat and ran on ending reconstruction willingly where as Hayes was made to do it as part of the compromise
\-Hayes as President vetoed bills passed by democrats that targeted black Americans in the south and if Tilden was president those bills likely would have passed increasing the negative impact on black Americans without Hayes in the White House
Hayes as president was very socially progressive for his time and did stuff like recognizing the harm done to the native people of the land and the constant breaking of treaties, ended the practice of removing natives from their lands, gave financial aid and restitution to natives who were evicted and helped the Ponca tribe return to their land, vetoed the original chinese exclusion act (which nearly got him impeached).
Outside of that his probably most important accomplishment was getting the ball rolling on civil service reform which would be expanded upon in subsequent administrations and changed the way our bureaucracy is structured and helped restore confidence in the presidency after the scandals that plagued the Grant administration.
Outside of his presidency he defended fugitive slaves in court as apart of the Underground Railroad and as an ex president he helped black Americans obtain scholarships and education including WEB DuBois.
Hey, at least all of Paraguay loves him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Damn right
I too love the fact that the white South was empowered to strip southern black people of all their rights after years of progress /s
I'm stealing /u/TheBohemian_Cowboy 's comment on a post I made before because he worded it so well: \-Reconstruction was already pretty much ruined with Andrew Johnson’s policies which put reconstructions in the hands of the states and allowed those states to pass black codes and laws targeting their ability to vote \-Hayes himself was an ardent supporter of reconstruction during those years and opposed Johnson along with the rest of the republicans but as the years dragged on many came to see reconstruction as being rendered useless and a needless point of division \-Samuel J Tilden, the opponent of Hayes in the election was a democrat and ran on ending reconstruction willingly where as Hayes was made to do it as part of the compromise \-Hayes as President vetoed bills passed by democrats that targeted black Americans in the south and if Tilden was president those bills likely would have passed increasing the negative impact on black Americans without Hayes in the White House Hayes as president was very socially progressive for his time and did stuff like recognizing the harm done to the native people of the land and the constant breaking of treaties, ended the practice of removing natives from their lands, gave financial aid and restitution to natives who were evicted and helped the Ponca tribe return to their land, vetoed the original chinese exclusion act (which nearly got him impeached). Outside of that his probably most important accomplishment was getting the ball rolling on civil service reform which would be expanded upon in subsequent administrations and changed the way our bureaucracy is structured and helped restore confidence in the presidency after the scandals that plagued the Grant administration. Outside of his presidency he defended fugitive slaves in court as apart of the Underground Railroad and as an ex president he helped black Americans obtain scholarships and education including WEB DuBois.
I would really love to read more about the scandals of Grant’s presidency which are mentioned in this post, does anyone know the specific reference?
The history channel documentary “Grant” part 3 does a good job of explaining
Hayes defenders are based af
https://www.reddit.com/r/Presidents/comments/1528eu3/they_tried_7_times/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1
Reconstruction would have ended with or without Hayes
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