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Rutherford B. Hayes
Course: US History (1491 ce)
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University: Jackson College
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Gilded Age: American Imperialism 1877-1900
Rutherford B. Hayes [1877-1881]
oRepublican
oVice President-William A. Wheeler
Major Domestic Affairs:
oWon election by 1 electoral vote after Congress appoints a special
electoral commission to look into the election debacle
oBland-Allison Act of 1878 allowed for free coinage of silver
oReconstruction ends in the Southern states with the Compromise of
1877
oFirst public telephones set up in the United States
Major Foreign Affairs:
oBalkan revolutions in Europe 1877-1879 against the Ottoman Turk
Empire and supported by Russia
Rumania
Bulgaria
Greece
oElectric street lighting introduced in London, England 1878
oFrozen meat shipped from Argentina to Europe for the first time 1877