WI: What Would a Tilden Presidency Look Like?

What would have happened had Samuel Tilden been declared the winner in 1876 instead of Rutherford Hayes? What kind of impact would four or eight years of a Tilden administration have had on America? Would Blacks in the post-Reconstruction South have been able to hold on to their civil rights? Would history have been any different regardless if Tilden won or lost?
 
What would have happened had Samuel Tilden been declared the winner in 1876 instead of Rutherford Hayes? What kind of impact would four or eight years of a Tilden administration have had on America? Would Blacks in the post-Reconstruction South have been able to hold on to their civil rights? Would history have been any different regardless if Tilden won or lost?
It would revive the Democratic Party eight years ahead of schedule. Tilden would probably enact some anti-corruption and other reform measures. Civil Rights for blacks in the post-Reconstruction South would be as bad as OTL or worse. I don't think there would be any dramatic changes during his presidency, probably down the road from altered politics.
 
It would revive the Democratic Party eight years ahead of schedule. Tilden would probably enact some anti-corruption and other reform measures. Civil Rights for blacks in the post-Reconstruction South would be as bad as OTL or worse. I don't think there would be any dramatic changes during his presidency, probably down the road from altered politics.

The one major event I could see affected during his Presidency is the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. Hayes had to send in troops to quell the labor uprising, so when and how Tilden might respond to the strikes might be significant. Also, contemporaries blamed the strikes in part on the deal that resulted in Hayes's election since Tilden had won the popular vote. I don't really think Tilden's election would have prevented it though.
 
For what is worth, here is the Congress at the beginning of Tilden's term:

45th Congress (1877-1879)

Senate:
-Start: 40 Republicans; 35 Democrats
-End: 39 Republicans; 36 Democrats (Oliver P. Morton (R) died and was replaced with Daniel W. Voorhees (D) by the Indiana state legislature)

House:
-Start: 145 Democrats and 2 Independent Democrats; 146 Republicans
-End: 148 Democrats and 2 Independent Democrats; 141 Republicans

Narrow Democratic majority in the House, fairly big Republican Majority in the Senate. Tilden is going to have to work with the Republicans if he wants to get things done.

Also: the 1878 elections are the first emergence of the Greenback Party, which would transform into the Populist Party after the initial incarnation fades.
 
Also, Hayes withdrew the last troops from the South as a condition of the Compromise of 1877, which Republicans in Congress went along with because that was the deal. However, if Tilden, a Democrat, withdraws the troops himself , it might anger Senate Republicans with implications on future legislative battles.
 
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