Political Party: Republican Terms: 1881-1885
Era
- Period 6 (1865-1898)
- Gilded Age
Political Policies
- Star Route Scandal which involved the fraudulent dispersal of postal route contracts
- Signed the Chinese Exclusion Act
- Pendleton Act (1883)
Social Policies
- Pendleton Civil Serve Reform Act to support civil rights
- Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
- A “Century of Dishonor” by Helen Hunt Jackson (1881)
- Social Gospel Movement
- ”The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain (1884)
Economic Policies
- Tariff of 1883 to reduce tariffs
- Harbors Act