Build-Up

  • Samuel Tilden was born

  • Rutherford B. Hayes was born

  • Breaking the Union

    As the Southern states started to secede after Lincoln's election to the Presidency in 1860, Hayes was unsure on the idea of a civil war to restore the Union.
  • Beginning of Civil War

    America fights over slavery with the North and South, if this war wasn't fought then slavery would have extended longer
  • End of civil war

    Confederate general Robert Edward Lee's surrenders to Ulysses Grant
  • End to slavery

    Thirteenth amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery in the United States
  • Hayes elected President

    Hayes was elected president in one of the most debated elections in national history
  • Election of 1877

    Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden both run for presidency and created conflict until the compromise of 1877
  • Compromise of 1877

    Congress settles the conflict of the election and had their final vote determining the outcome of the presidency.
  • Samuel Tilden Dies

  • Rutherford B. Hayes dies

    Hayes died of a heart attack at his home