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The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election and ended Congressional Reconstruction
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The compromise essentially stated that Southern Democrats would acknowledge Hayes as President, but only if the Republicans acceded to various demands: The removal of all Federal troops from the former Confederate States. (Troops only remained in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida, but the Compromise finalized the process.) The appointment of at least one Southern Democrat to Hayes' cabinet. (David M. Key of Tennessee became Postmaster General.) Hayes had already promised this. The construction of another transcontinental railroad using the Texas and Pacific in the South (this had been part of the "Scott Plan," proposed by Thomas A. Scott, which initiated the process that led to the final compromise). Legislation to help industrialize the South
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Points 1 and 2 took effect almost immediately; 3 and 4 were not recognized until 1930
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He was born in Metuchen, New Jersey, to parents who had been slaves owned by the Mundy family. He was a school custodian in Perth Amboy. Active in the Republican Party, he became that the city's first African-American to hold elected office, on the Middlesex County Commission.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest was born to a poor family in Chapel Hill, Tennessee. He was the first of blacksmith William Forrest's twelve children with wife Miriam Beck. After his father's death, Forrest became head of the family at age 17
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Although the title was not coined until after her death
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Martha Washington is considered to be the first First Lady of the United States. During her lifetime, she was known as "Lady Washington".
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George loved Martha. They both lived in Mt. Vernon. She gave George the authority to treat her kids like he was the actual father.
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Martha knew that G.W. still loved Sally but she loved him anyway. G.W. loved Martha's kids like they were his own. When Patsy died he was very sad. He had a harder time with Jackie Martha's son.
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in the movie all she wanted was that washigtons son to have everything and all washightons other sons from another mother to have nothing.
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martha washington became washingtons wife right before the war even though he like sally more
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Martha Dandridge Custis, aged 27, and George Washington, aged nearly 27, married on January 6, 1759 at her estate, known as the White House, on the Pamunkey River northwest of Williamsburg. It seems likely that Washington had known Martha and her husband for some time.
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