based hayes

An adequate filler president elected illegally in a stolen election, but at least he finally ended Reconstruction. Could be worse.

>Hayes's administration was a turbulent one--the economy continued to be depressed from the 1873 panic and there were numerous mass strikes and riots that paralyzed the Eastern cities. Huge railroad strikes in cities like Pittsburgh and Baltimore forced Hayes to dispatch Army troops to quell the disturbances. Numerous deaths and injuries resulted. Further violence erupted on the West Coast over the presence of Chinese immigrant laborers, which were 9% of California's entire population. In 1879, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to bar immigration from that country. Hayes vetoed it on the grounds that it would violate the terms of an outstanding US treaty with China. Angry demonstrators in California burned the president in effigy. Congress tried again three years later, after Hayes was out of office, it passed, and all immigration from China was banned until World War II.

>Despite the protests of some Republicans who craved "four more years of good stealin'", Hayes removed the final occupying troops from the South, officially ending Reconstruction after 12 years. His support of civil service reform also touched off prolonged warfare with the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party, when he fired NYC Port Collector Chester Arthur. Hayes had limited himself in advance to a single term as president and was fortunate in doing so since the RNC bosses had no desire to run him again in 1880.

>>18516576
>What do you think of the man who saved Paraguay?
I think this is the most benevolent action that doesn't directly benefit the USA a us president has even don geopolitically.

I think Hayes is a solid B- president. Obviously he didn’t get the most done or was the most successful politician, but he left the country better than where it was before.

Obviously the end of reconstruction is a horrific tragedy and should not have happened, but it dying off rather quickly and very few wanted to continue it any longer. Hayes was also important to block voter suppression of the freedmen and he tried to fund federal agents to monitor polls.

He vetoed an early attempt at Chinese exclusion, was against destructive inflation, started civil service reform, and came across as honest and sincere in contrast to the disputed election.

He isn’t one of the greats but he did well for what was given to him. He also had a great post presidency as well.

>>18517262
he restored the dignity of the presidency after the shitfest of the Grant years and managed to turn the economy around from the 1870s depression

>>18516669
Reconstruction was finished anyway, only Florida and South Carolina were still occupied by 1876 and there was no way you could force Southern whites to accept civil rights willingly.

>>18516656
Andrew Johnson bungled Reconstruction hard but that doesn’t have to be said, Grant is the reason why it didn’t rebound under a Republican administration. His corruption scandals took his focus away from it and lead to Democrats taking Congress in the '74 midterms and continuing to undermine it. Grant was also inconsistent in his enforcement and allowed Confederate Redeemers to come back into Southern governments. That coupled with the economic crash in 1873 made the public believe Reconstruction to be a waste of time and resources. By the time Hayes came around there were just troops stationed into two Southern cities that Grant was already ordering the removal of.

I don’t really see what else Hayes could have done desu, at least he kept the enforcement act on the books and vetoed bills attacking black Americans.

the fact that Hayes didn't want to run for a second term kind of limited his power. he was an advocate of the idea that the president should serve one six year term.

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>>18516576
It's 1877 and the Democrats would gloat
But they're all amazed when Rutherford Hayes
Wins by just one vote!