[Music] hey guys welcome to Hip Hughes History we're kicking it with a compromise of 1877 also known as the Great Betrayal no big deal just led to the neo eninsslavement of millions of American citizens for 60 or 70 years you might want to know something about that so here we go giddy up for the learning on the YouTubes guys come with me to the house of [Music] teaching all right context guys we're talking about the presidential election of 1876 and in 1876 you still got mad reconstruction going on the South is in turmoil in terms of occupation you have Union troops still there you have redeemer Democrats scallywags and traders you have uh African-Americans that are trying to exercise their legal constitutional rights 14th 15th amendment and things are going a little bit cray cray as we set up this election so the two candidates are a Democrat you might think the Democrat's from the South not it's Samuel Tilden who's from New York but he's a Democrat in the sense that he believes in a limited role of the federal government he supported the Civil War Union forces but he was always very critical of Abraham Lincoln and what he saw as kind of tyranny of the central government it's like a like a classical anti-fed kind of thing and definitely a states rights southern Democrat kind of thing and you have Rutherford D hayes from Ohio a Republican but I want you to think not as a Republican like 14th amendment 15th amendment radical Republican he's a cha-ching he's a momo Republican he's interested in industrialization and tariffs and big business so basically what occurs and you can look at the electoral map we have a really close electoral college thing going on here at the end of the election three states kind of stood in the balance of Florida Louisiana and South Carolina three states that still had union forces that still were occupied so maybe that's why these states are in question we can't figure out who won them because African-Americans are voting and there's uh you know the Kucus clan and all this stuff is going on so the end of the day it's 184 Tilden 165 in the electoral college for Hayes and these three states add up to 20 so if Hayes is going to win he's going to bang bang bang he's going to pick up all three states tilden just needs one state so what occurs um we set up an electoral commission to decide who's going to win these three states and this electoral commission made up of eight Republicans and seven Democrats supposedly is making an unofficial deal between the Republican and the Democratic Party this is the compromise of 1877 so 2 days before inauguration we're talking 48 hours on March 2nd 1877 um the Electoral Commission announces who the winner is and surprise surprise it's Rutherford B hayes so at the end of the day what's going to happen right hayes is going to win rutherford behazes takes all three states you can see it right there on electoral map right bang bang bang so what's the deal what's the great betrayal what's up with millions of Americans losing their liberty i'm talking about those African-Americans because those African-Americans are trying to live out the promise of the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment equal protections and being full citizens and exercising their rights and with Union troops there they can do it but guess what psyche that's part of the deal the first part of the compromise of 1877 is those troops are going bye-bye now Hayes always kind of supported that idea anyway I'll tell you but they wanted it done immediately and Grant actually started taking out troops before um Hayes even took office so that's number one so you're taking like an exam or something like that the answer is usually reconstruction's over it's over the dream is dead right african-american rights and uh the 14th amendment that's not going to be enforced by the federal government of the Supreme Court really up to Brown versus Board and into the 1950s and60s so Jim Crow hello rights goodbye liberty see you later there were other couple parts of that deal that you need to know the South wanted somebody in the administration they end up with David Mckendry from Tennessee as the postmaster general they also the south that is and the Democrats want some type of industrialization down south they want money for like a transcontinental railroad that would one break one through Texas that's not going to happen that was part of the deal though but at the end of the day it's the Great Betrayal it's the removal of those troops it's the end of reconstruction that's what you want to get so giddy up for that the Great Betrayal i take the giddy up back because I don't think it's a giddy up but there you go guys the compromise of 1877 one more interesting fact is this is one of those elections where the popular vote doesn't matter right if you look at that popular vote you could see that Tilton had like 4.3 million and there were 4 million votes for Hayes 300,000 more people according to uh you know who voted in that election voted for Tildon but that don't matter popular vote don't matter all that matters is the electoral college one more character that I want to bring up in this episode and that's Mr hannah from Pennsylvania that's right the teacher from Strazburg Junior High School it's a shout out to you and your kids for watching a little bit of Hip Hughes history and growing your collective brains and engaging in the art of teaching and that's from Joshua in second period but giddy up for that keep watching and make sure you subscribe because uh you guys are great everyone's great there you go guys remember where attention goes energy flows click my face if you haven't subscribed it's like magic watch see I told you so see you next time we do teach on YouTubes la [Music]