What was problematic about the 1876 presidential election?
a. one of grant’s staff members ran for president, even though he’d been accused of taking bribes.
b. tilden won the popular vote, hayes narrowly won the electoral vote, and votes in four states were disputed.
c. the republican party was divided between grant’s followers and the liberal republicans.
d. hayes won the popular vote, tilden narrowly won the electoral vote, and florida’s voting results were disputed.

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The United States presidential election of 1876 was one of the common disputed presidential elections in American Chronicle. Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the democratic vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes uncounted. The Agreement of 1877, which granted all 20 electoral votes to Hayes. In return for the Democrats' permission to Hayes's election, the Republicans accepted to withdraw federal delegations from the South, closing Reconstruction.

jim crow law, in u.s. history, any of the laws in which racial was enforced, in the south between the finish of reconstruction in 1877 and the start of the social liberties development during the 1950s.

jim crow was the name of a minstrel routine( jump jim crow) performed starting in 1828 by its creator, thomas dartmouth ("daddy") rice, and by numerous imitators, including on-screen character joseph jefferson.

the term came to be a defamatory sobriquet for african americans and an assignment for their segregated life. the segregation rule was stretched out to parks, graveyards, theaters, and eateries with an end goal to keep any contact among blacks and whites as equivalents.

it was classified on neighborhood and state levels and most broadly with the "separate yet equivalent" choice of the u.s. preeminent court in plessy v. ferguson (1896).