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What was the goal of the Hayes administration's alliance with the Old Southern Whigs?
To end Reconstruction
To reinstate the Confederacy
To enact universal suffrage
To expand western territories
Answer
To end Reconstruction, the Hayes administration formed an alliance with the Old Southern Whigs. By combining the political strength of the North and South, they sought to restore home rule to the Southern states and reverse many of the Reconstruction-era policies that had aimed to protect the civil rights of African Americans.
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