Major Events of Presidency:
- Congress Passes 15th Amendment
- Union Pacific, first transcontinental railroad, completed
- First of the "redeemer" governments elected in South (white dominated governments)
- Last of former confederate states reenters Union
- "Enforcement acts" passed
- Decline in violence perpetrated by KKK
- Alabama shipyard claims settled with England
- Liberal Republicans oppose "Grantism" after a series of scandals including the
- Panic of 1783 heightens issue of "Greenback Question"
- Timber Culture Act passed
- Gold rush in Dakota Territory
- Specie Resumption Act passed in response to Panic of 1783
- "Whiskey Ring" scandal
- Colorado statehood
- Desert Land Act passed