- Withdrawal of federal troops from the South, effectively ending Reconstruction.
- The federal government would provide financial aid to the South for infrastructure development.
- Southern Democrats would support Republican policies, including the protective tariff and federal funding for internal improvements.
- The Republican Party would not interfere with the South's "states' rights" to determine who could vote and hold office.
The Compromise led to an end to theReconstruction era and marked the beginning of Jim Crow laws and de jure racial segregation in the former Confederate states, which lasted about another eight decades.