The 1877 bargain sold out Black voters to restore white rule.

Evidence

No one ever revealed the exact terms of the “Bargain of 1877.” But Democrats handed Republican Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency, while Hayes ended Reconstruction for the Democrats. Hayes recognized the stolen Democratic governments in Louisiana and South Carolina. He withdrew federal troops from the South and used those troops to crush the Great Strike of 1877. (As capital regained control of labor, the Knights of Labor materialized as the principal national labor organization. Knights head Terence V. Powderly demanded unions’ desegregation to control the competition. He considered Blacks a “lazy” reservoir of “cheap labor” that could easily be used against White labor.) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 689

Categorization

• XREF: Powderly’s logic is a pure assimilationist argument in Kendi’s scheme — desegregate the unions to neutralize Blacks as anti-labor scabs; directly applicable to the reader’s three-way placement test.
• ADDENDUM: The Knights of Labor framing of Black workers as a cheap-labor threat to white labor prefigures the same argument in contemporary labor politics; connects to the reader’s existing interest in how white economic self-interest produces racist policy first, then racist justification.