Federal Troops Removed from the South

• The former Confederate States would no longer have to deal with the presence of federal troops, which they saw as Northern troops. This compromise became known as The Great Betrayal, because Republicans agreed to withdraw the troops and cease Reconstruction, which was helping the slaves that had been freed. The withdrawal from the South left it in the hands of the Democrats. Former slaves became victims of discrimination under the "Jim Crow" laws the southern states imposed.
  
  

At Least One Democrat Included in Hayes' Cabinet

• Hayes was required to place a Democrat in his Cabinet, thus assuring the South of representation in the Executive Branch of government. This, in effect, recognized the South as having legitimate claims that were recognized by the federal government, even though the South had seceded from the union.
  
  

Second Transcontinental Railroad to be Constructed in the South

• The South would receive a major railroad, thus assuring it the ability to ship agricultural products, which were their main source of income. At the time of the Civil War, slaves had been the single largest economic asset of the entire nation. The South needed a way to rebuild its economy after the loss of this asset, and the Second Transcontinental Railroad was a way to help begin this recovery.
  
  

Legislation to be Passed to Aid Industrialization of the South

• The South's agrarian economy had never had the ability to survive without free slave labor, so the Compromise of 1877 required that the federal government help the South industrialize. This move would usher in the Industrial Age in the South, where plantations would soon fall by the wayside as more productive industries took over.