What deal did congressional democrats and republicans make after the presidential election of 1876?
the president would be a democrat, and the vice president would be a republican.
the president would be a republican, and the vice president would be a democrat.
the president would be a democrat, and federal troops would be removed from the south.
the president would be a republican, and federal troops would be removed from the south.

The president would be a republican, and federal troops would be removed from the south.

The right answer is The president would be a Republican, and federal troops would be removed from the South.

The presidential election returns of that year were so close that a special commission was established to count contested electoral votes. A decision hammered out at a secret meeting gave the presidency to the Republican, Rutherford B. Hayes; in return, the Democrats were promised that the last federal troops would be withdrawn from Louisiana and South Carolina, putting an end to the Radical Republican administrations in the southern states

The major benefits of the Louisiana purchase were the vast expansion of the territory of the United States and the acquisition of an abundance of natural resources for a modest price. It removed France as a colonizing presence in the area and gave the United States the important port of New Orleans and the trading channel of the Mississippi River.