Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
Inaugurated as the 18th president of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1877.
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Hamilton Fish
American politician who served as the 16th Governor of New York from 1849 to 1850, a United States Senator from New York from 1851 to 1857 and the 26th United States Secretary of State from 1869 to 1877.
Fish is recognized as the "pillar" of the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant and considered one of the best U.S. Secretaries of State by scholars, known for his judiciousness and efforts towards reform and diplomatic moderation.
Schuyler Colfax
American journalist, businessman, and politician who served as the 17th vice president of the United States from 1869 to 1873, and prior to that as the 25th Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1863 to 1869.
Chosen as Ulysses S. Grant's running mate in the 1868 election, the pair won easily over Democratic Party nominees Horatio Seymour and Francis Preston Blair Jr. As was typical during the 19th century, Colfax had little involvement in the Grant administration.
United States Department of Justice
Federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States.
The modern incarnation of the department was formed in 1870 during the Ulysses S. Grant presidency.
John Aaron Rawlins
John Aaron Rawlins (February 13, 1831 – September 6, 1869) was a general officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a cabinet officer in the Grant administration.
42nd United States Congress
Meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1871, to March 4, 1873, during the third and fourth years of Ulysses S. Grant's presidency.
Comstock laws
The Comstock Laws were a set of federal acts passed by the United States Congress under the Grant administration along with related state laws.
Panic of 1873
Financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877 or 1879 in France and in Britain.
Public opinion made it difficult for the Grant administration to develop a coherent policy on the Southern states, and the North began to steer away from Reconstruction.
Great Sioux War of 1876
Series of battles and negotiations that occurred in 1876 and 1877 in an alliance of Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States.
![The Lakota Wars (1854–1890): The battlefields and the Lakota treaty territory of 1851. Most battles "between the army and the Dakota [Lakota] were on lands those Indians had taken from other tribes since 1851".](https://hyperleap.com/images/6e16f711049f96868b872bd871ab1c76/200-de5a0b991e6206199c90ace88ea610cc.png)
Such evictions, however, increased political pressure on the Grant Administration to secure the Black Hills from the Lakota.
Republican Party (United States)
One of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with its main historic rival, the Democratic Party.
Others found contempt with the large-scale corruption present in Grant's administration, with the emerging Stalwart faction defending Grant and the spoils system, whereas the Half-Breeds pushed for reform of the civil service.
1876 United States presidential election
The 23rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1876 in which Republican nominee Rutherford B. Hayes faced Democrat Samuel J. Tilden.
Tilden, who had prosecuted machine politicians in New York and sent the legendary political boss William M. Tweed to jail, ran as a reform candidate against the background of the corruption of the Grant administration.