Political Party: Republican Terms: 1877-1881
Era
- Period 6 (1865-1898)
- Gilded Age
Political Policies
- Ended Reconstruction
- Executive order to forbid the involvement of federal employees in political activities
- Compromise of 1877
Social Policies
- Protected African Americans
- Restricted Chinese immigration
- Lockwood Bill, allowed female lawyers in the Supreme Court
- Progress and Poverty by Henry George (1879)
- Social Gospel Movement
Economic Policies
- Supported the Panama Canal
- Opposed inflation
- Made federal dollars available for the South
- Supported the gold standard
- Standard Oil Trust
- Great Railroad Strike of 1877
- Incandescent light bulb by Thomas Edison (1879)
- Farmers’ Alliance (1877)
- Munn v. Illinois (1877)